CareerPlan

Software Engineer - Simulation

Austin - ATX1Full-time$151k2026-09-29 → 2026-11-10

Core

Own end-to-end simulation of a next-generation surgical robot for brain-computer interface installation, enabling automated test & verification on every commit.

Role type

Senior IC simulation engineer (robotics)

Builds

Full robot simulation environment (dynamics, sensors, actuators, product-stack interfaces) and automated verification pipelines

Domain

Robotics / Medical devices / Physics simulation

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Rust, Python, robotics physics simulation, async/concurrent systems, hardware interfaces, RPC, telemetry, automated integration testing, fault injection, CI/CD pipeline optimization

Preferred skills

Bazel, AI agents for workflow acceleration

Technologies

MuJoCo, Isaac Sim, Gazebo, Rust, Python, Bazel

Responsibilities

Build full robot sim including dynamics, sensors, actuators, and product-stack interfaces; Test real robot software and firmware against simulated hardware; Write automated sim tests covering scenarios, regressions, fault injection, and coverage; Make runs deterministic, measurable, and cheap enough to run in CI; Reproduce hardware failures in sim to accelerate test timelines

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC