Amazon
Sr Software Engineer- Simulation, Fauna
$185K–$250K
New York, NY · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 23, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years for software development, programming, and system design or architecture; no duration stated for other experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
About the job
Build and scale simulation environments, tools, and data systems for training and evaluating robots before real-world deployment.
What you'll do
- Develop workflows to generate, configure, and manage scenes, assets, and scenarios; extend simulation for robot capabilities and interactions in dynamic environments.
- Build reproducible experiments and tools for automated evaluation, debugging, regression testing, and simulation data pipelines.
- Scale simulation through automation, workload orchestration, and remote hosting, and improve performance, usability, and sim2real fidelity with partner teams.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience and 5+ years programming in at least one language.
- 5+ years leading design or architecture of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team lead.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent; experience developing robotics software, simulation systems, real-time applications, or scalable data pipelines.
Nice to have
- Experience with robotics simulation frameworks or real-time 3D engines, such as Isaac Sim, Isaac Lab, MuJoCo, Unreal Engine, or Unity.
- Experience with the full software development life cycle; procedural scene generation; distributed systems or cloud-hosted simulation; evaluation frameworks; or sim2real transfer.
Pay
184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Isaac Sim, Isaac Lab, MuJoCo, Unreal Engine, Unity
Model-written summary · the original posting is authoritative