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The current and future observations of the CMB are expected to reach unprecedented sensitivity to place stringent constraints on both cosmological parameters and fundamental physics. The ground-based Simons Observatory Large Aperture Telescope started observations last year, and will provide the most sensitive small-scale CMB measurements. A tight control over instrumental systematics is critical, through the assessment of their impact as well as their mitigation. In this talk, we propose a new generalized framework to efficiently simulate systematics at the map level, along with the Python package smarties optimized to handle high resolution simulations. As a first application, we demonstrate that our results are in agreement with significantly more numerically expensive end-to-end simulations for a set of beam-related systematics. The ability to efficiently produce large ensembles of such simulations will allow for more robust cosmological parameter estimation from the power spectra of the CMB and gravitational lensing potential.