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Simulation Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 30+ simulation jobs at companies offering 9-day fortnights and generous PTO—for a better work-life balance. 6 new this week. Hiring companies include The Aerospace Corporation, Technergetics, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

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4-day weeks 1
9-day fortnights 13
compressed weeks 2
generous PTO 4
unlimited PTO 10

Updated August 23, 2026

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Quantum Benchmarking Initiative Researcher

4mo

Technergetics · Remote · USA

60 · GoodGenerous PTO$75k – $150k

Quantum Benchmarking Initiative Systems Engineer

4mo

Technergetics · Remote · USA

60 · GoodGenerous PTO$75k – $150k

Senior / Staff Research Engineer, Simulation Assets & Content Systems

23d

Waabi · Remote · USA or Canada

58 · GoodUnlimited PTO

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Radar Systems Engineer

Parsons Corporation · Hybrid · Aberdeen, NC, USA

70 · Great9 Day Fortnight$104k – $181k

OPIR/Remote Sensing Algorithm Analyst

NEW

The Aerospace Corporation · Onsite · El Segundo, CA, USA

63 · Good9 Day Fortnight$129k – $250k

Senior Space Domain Awareness and Space Control Analyst

The Aerospace Corporation · Hybrid · Colorado Springs, USA

63 · Good9 Day Fortnight$151k – $227k

Division Director, Safeguards and Security Technology Division (SSTD)

Oak Ridge National Laboratory · Hybrid · Oak Ridge, TN, USA

63 · Good9 Day Fortnight

Modeling and Simulation Software Integration Engineer

AV · Onsite · Huntsville, AL, USA

61 · Good9 Day Fortnight

Executive Director for Nursing Access Programming

4mo

D'Youville University · Onsite · Buffalo, USA

77 · Great4 Day Work Week$80k – $85k

Systems Engineer

General Atomics · Onsite · Acton, MA, USA

58 · Good9 Day Fortnight

Engineering Applications Software Engineer

10d

Jet Propulsion Laboratory · Onsite · Pasadena, CA, USA

68 · Good9 Day Fortnight$93k – $111k

Embedded Software Test Engineer

The Aerospace Corporation · Hybrid · El Segundo, USA

63 · Good9 Day Fortnight$87k – $150k

PDRA in Power Electronic Converters in Power Systems

22d

University of Manchester · Hybrid · Manchester, UK

70 · GreatCompressed Work Week

Principal Research Scientist - Frontier Industrial AI

18d

AVEVA · Hybrid · London +2 more

66 · GoodGenerous PTO

ASIC Digital Designer

26d

CERN · Hybrid · Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

64 · GoodGenerous PTOCHF 5k – CHF 6k

Senior Research Scientist - Nuclear Materials and Radiation Effects

1mo

Oak Ridge National Laboratory · Hybrid · Oak Ridge, TN, USA

63 · Good9 Day Fortnight

Software Engineer 5 - Ads Forecasting and Simulation

13d

Netflix · Hybrid · New York, NY, USA

59 · GoodUnlimited PTO$388k – $558k

Postdoctoral Researcher - Quantum Optics

2mo

Syracuse University · Hybrid · Syracuse, USA

61 · GoodCompressed Work Week

FPGA Firmware Engineer

1mo

General Dynamics UK · Hybrid · Hastings, UK

60 · Good9 Day Fortnight£36k – £45k

Electrical Engineer

3mo

Sesame · Onsite · San Francisco, CA or Bellevue, WA

59 · GoodUnlimited PTO$175k – $280k

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Employers hiring for Simulation on this page include The Aerospace Corporation, Technergetics, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Simulation roles appear most frequently in engineering, data, and platform teams at companies that have adopted a reduced-hours schedule. Each listing indicates the seniority level and whether Simulation is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

Simulation roles span the full seniority range — we list 30 open roles requiring Simulation across entry-level, mid-level, senior, lead, and staff/principal positions. Senior and above tend to dominate because employers offering reduced-hours schedules often lean toward experienced individual contributors who can deliver consistently in fewer hours. Filter by level in the sidebar to narrow the list above.

Lead with measurable outcomes over time spent — Simulation hiring managers at reduced-hours companies care about delivered value, not hours worked. Highlight projects where you shipped at a steady cadence, collaborated asynchronously, or reduced engineering toil through automation or tooling. Include concrete metrics (latency improvements, adoption numbers, cost reductions) rather than vague duty descriptions. Expand listings above to see the exact framing each employer uses in their job descriptions.

For the full-pay schedules here — 4-day weeks and 9-day fortnights — yes: you keep a full-time salary for a shorter week. Part-time and pro-rata roles instead scale pay to hours, and each listing makes the arrangement clear. Simulation roles in tech and data typically command premium rates at both reduced-hours and traditional employers; specific ranges depend on seniority, location, and sub-specialty (e.g. backend vs frontend, infra vs ML). Individual listings above show exact bands where the employer publishes them.

Depends on the role, but Simulation candidates who also demonstrate async communication, clean documentation, and cross-functional collaboration are typically strong fits for reduced-hours employers — those companies rely on written-first communication and high-context handoffs to operate on a compressed schedule. Technical-adjacent skills vary by stack. Browse the top skills shown in the sidebar to see which tags co-occur most often with Simulation on current listings.

Simulation Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 30+ simulation jobs at companies offering 9-day fortnights and generous PTO—for a better work-life balance. 6 new this week. Hiring companies include The Aerospace Corporation, Technergetics, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

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