Applied Intuition
Senior Asset Pipeline Engineer - Sensor Platform
$151K–$230K
Sunnyvale · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jun 11, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years authoring and validating custom USD schemas; production pipeline ownership experience required.
- Education
- At minimum, a Bachelor's degree in STEM or a related field.
About the job
Designs and owns an OpenUSD-based 3D asset pipeline for sensor simulation, from architecture through production.
What you'll do
- Design OpenUSD schemas, composition, and metadata strategies for a large versioned asset library.
- Build automated DCC-to-engine pipelines and CI validation; convert materials while preserving sensor-simulation fidelity.
- Take the pipeline into production, ensuring observability, reliability, and a smooth authoring experience.
What they ask for
- Deep practical expertise designing and debugging OpenUSD composition stacks.
- 3+ years authoring and validating custom USD schemas.
- Strong UsdShade expertise with complex material networks.
- Production experience owning automated DCC-to-engine pipelines; USD library-scale management; Bachelor's degree in STEM or a related field.
Nice to have
- NVIDIA Omniverse / Isaac Sim, Houdini LOPs, or MDL experience.
- Sensor simulation or automotive, defense, or robotics simulation experience; ROS 2 / scene assembly is a plus.
Pay
$151K – $230K (base salary)
Tools
OpenUSD, UsdShade, MDL, Python, NVIDIA Omniverse, Isaac Sim, Houdini LOPs, ROS 2
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