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Simulation Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 30+ simulation jobs at companies offering 9-day fortnights and compressed weeks—for a better work-life balance. 14 new this week. Hiring companies include The Aerospace Corporation, General Atomics, and Syracuse University.

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4-day weeks 1
9-day fortnights 13
compressed weeks 5
generous PTO 4
unlimited PTO 7

Updated October 3, 2026

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Senior Software Engineer (Game Engine)

1mo

Playson · Remote · Europe

62 · GoodUnlimited PTO

Senior / Staff Research Engineer, Simulation Assets & Content Systems

2mo

Waabi · Remote · USA or Canada

58 · GoodUnlimited PTO$155k – $269k

SIGINT System Engineer

Boeing · Onsite · El Segundo, CA, USA

71 · Great9 Day Fortnight$211k – $285k

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Spacecraft Thermal Engineer

NEW

The Aerospace Corporation · Hybrid · El Segundo, CA or Chantilly, VA

63 · Good9 Day Fortnight$117k – $176k

Postdoctoral Researcher - Mechanical Engineering

NEW

Syracuse University · Onsite · Syracuse, NY, USA

61 · GoodCompressed Work Week

RF / Antenna Engineer

The Aerospace Corporation · Onsite · Chantilly, VA, USA

63 · Good9 Day Fortnight$87k – $130k

Performance Analysis Engineer – Ground-based Missile Defense

AV · Onsite · Arsenal, AL, USA

61 · Good9 Day Fortnight

Space Systems Modeling & Simulation Specialist

The Aerospace Corporation · Onsite · Chantilly, VA, USA

63 · Good9 Day Fortnight$156k – $234k

Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack — Decision Intelligence

Amgen · Onsite · Hyderabad, India

59 · GoodGenerous PTO

Digital Twin Engineering Intern

NEW

Graphcore · Onsite · Austin, TX, USA

57 · GoodUnlimited PTO

Research Associate - In Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy of Electrocatalytic Systems

University of Manchester · Hybrid · Manchester, UK

70 · GreatCompressed Work Week

Staff Software Engineering Supervisor

General Atomics · Onsite · Poway, CA, USA

58 · Good9 Day Fortnight

Executive Director for Nursing Access Programming

5mo

D'Youville University · Onsite · Buffalo, USA

77 · Great4 Day Work Week$80k – $85k

Knowledge Transfer Partnership Associate in Advanced and Digitalised Construction

16d

University of Manchester · Hybrid · Manchester, UK

70 · GreatCompressed Work Week

Principal Research Scientist - Frontier Industrial AI

1mo

AVEVA · Hybrid · London +2 more

66 · GoodGenerous PTO

Software System Engineer

2mo

Oak Ridge National Laboratory · Hybrid · Oak Ridge, USA

63 · Good9 Day Fortnight

Assistant Professor of Instruction, Nursing

1mo

Ohio University · Onsite · Athens, OH, USA

61 · GoodCompressed Work Week

Postdoctoral Researcher - Quantum Optics

4mo

Syracuse University · Hybrid · Syracuse, USA

61 · GoodCompressed Work Week

FPGA Firmware Engineer

2mo

General Dynamics UK · Hybrid · Hastings, UK

60 · Good9 Day Fortnight£36k – £45k

Software Engineer 5 - Ads Forecasting and Simulation

1mo

Netflix · Hybrid · New York, NY, USA

59 · GoodUnlimited PTO$388k – $558k

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Employers hiring for Simulation on this page include The Aerospace Corporation, General Atomics, and Syracuse University. 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.

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