Senior Simulation Engineer

What you'll do

• Build and integrate realistic simulators, scenarios, and data logging for closed-loop testing and synthetic data generation.
• Develop diagnostic tools and evaluation pipelines, and coordinate simulation workflows and metrics across autonomy, ML, platform, and integration teams.
• Lead efforts to improve simulation-to-vehicle validation and provide technical mentorship.

What they ask for

• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Robotics, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in robotics, autonomous systems, or simulation.
• Experience with 3D reconstruction, 3D generation, and Unreal Engine.
• Strong Python and C++ programming skills, plus experience integrating simulation platforms into autonomous system workflows.

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience validating machine learning-based autonomy stacks in closed-loop simulation.
• Knowledge of scenario generation, rare-event simulation, counterfactual testing, cloud compute, or multi-agent simulation.

Pay

$180,000 and $258,750/year (USD, base pay; California-based roles)

Tools

Gaussian Splatting, Neural radiance fields, Unreal Engine, Python, C++, CARLA, Applied Intuition, Nvidia DriveSim

AI focus

Supports Toyota’s AI efforts by validating learned driving behaviors and generating synthetic data for training and evaluation of an end-to-end learned driving stack.