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Tech Lead, Simulation Engine

Ann Arbor , MI - HQ💼 Full-time💰 $189,000–$189,000🗓 2026-08-12 → 2026-09-26

Core

Architect and scale the core autonomous vehicle simulation engine, adapter layers, and unified evaluation metrics backend to support high-fidelity vehicle dynamics, multi-body physics, rendering, and sensor-simulation pipelines.

Role type

Senior IC simulation engineer (autonomous vehicles)

Builds

High-fidelity simulation environments for autonomous vehicle testing and validation

Domain

Autonomous vehicles / Robotics / Simulation

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Modern C++, Python, software architecture for large modular systems, vehicle dynamics, multi-body physics, robotics middleware integration, team leadership, mentoring

Preferred skills

Autonomous vehicles background, high-fidelity rendering, sensor-simulation pipelines, ML integration in simulation, hardware-in-the-loop testing, deterministic real-time computing

Technologies

C++, Python, robotics middleware, simulation engines

Responsibilities

Architect and maintain the core simulation engine and adapter layer; Lead development of ego-vehicle dynamics and physics models; Own the mathematical logic and backend for the unified metrics system; Set technical direction and lead design/code reviews; Partner with HiL teams on integration hooks; Mentor engineers across the team

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities

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