Senior Asset Pipeline Engineer - Sensor Platform
Core
Design and own the end-to-end content pipeline for a large-scale 3D simulation asset library, enabling automotive and robotics customers to validate perception systems against high-fidelity simulated sensor data.
Role type
Senior individual-contributor pipeline engineer (OpenUSD architecture)
Builds
Automated pipelines moving assets between DCC tools and real-time/simulation engines; OpenUSD schema and composition strategies; automated validation gates in CI.
Domain
Physical AI simulation infrastructure for automotive, defense, and robotics
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
OpenUSD composition expertise, custom USD schema authoring, UsdShade material conversion, automated DCC-to-engine pipeline development, USD library-scale management
Preferred skills
NVIDIA Omniverse/Isaac Sim extensions, Houdini LOPs, MDL authoring, sensor simulation domain knowledge, ROS 2
Technologies
OpenUSD, UsdShade, MDL, Python, C++, Houdini, NVIDIA Omniverse, Isaac Sim, ROS 2
Responsibilities
Design OpenUSD schema and composition strategy for versioned 3D asset libraries; Build automated pipelines removing manual hand-offs between tools and engines; Define automated validation gates for asset integrity in CI; Solve material conversion for simulation preserving physical fidelity; Design asset metadata strategy for discovery and semantic labeling; Ensure pipeline observability and reliability for content authors.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
