Simulation Engineer

What you'll do

• Create and maintain simulation-ready robot, tool, and scene assets, including collision geometry and automated asset workflows.
• Measure physical and perception sim-to-real gaps using matched tests, then calibrate simulation models and visual assets.
• Optimize simulation performance and develop programmable, randomized task environments for training and evaluation.

What they ask for

• Experience building digital twins, simulation assets, or physically interactive environments for robotics, industrial simulation, or comparable applications.
• Practical understanding of collision detection and contact modeling, and experience optimizing 3D assets and scenes for runtime use.
• Hands-on experience with Isaac Sim, Omniverse, MuJoCo, or a comparable physics-based simulation platform; familiarity with USD and robot descriptions such as URDF, or equivalent formats and workflows.
• Solid understanding of 3D geometry, coordinate transforms, rigid-body dynamics, and articulated systems; working understanding of simulation for robot learning and evaluation.

Nice to have

• Experience with contact-rich manipulation, grasping, articulated mechanisms, or robotics simulation.
• Experience with Isaac Lab, PhysX, scene generation, synthetic data pipelines, CAD conversion, photogrammetry, scene reconstruction, Blender, Houdini, or simulation for imitation or reinforcement learning.

Pay

$170,000 - $400,000 USD base salary

Tools

Isaac Sim, Omniverse, MuJoCo, USD, URDF, Isaac Lab, PhysX, Blender

AI focus

Simulation supports robot learning, data generation, perception and policy evaluation, including randomized environments and parallel rollouts.