CareerPlan

Senior Research Engineer, Simulation

US, CA, Santa ClaraFull-time$224k2026-01-09 → 2026-11-11

Core

Develop and maintain physics simulation environments and pipelines to support large-scale robotics research and sim2real deployment for humanoid robots.

Role type

Senior Research Engineer (Physics Simulation)

Builds

Simulation environments, control algorithms, procedural generation pipelines, and Sim2Real deployment tools.

Domain

Robotics, Physics Simulation, Embodied AI

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Physics simulation (MuJoCo, Isaac Sim, PyBullet, Drake, Gazebo), GPU optimization, procedural generation, Sim2Real pipelines, USD asset configuration, Gym-style API design

Preferred skills

Reinforcement learning, neural network training, robotics hardware debugging, open-source contributions, tech lead experience

Technologies

MuJoCo, Isaac Lab, Isaac Sim, USD, GPU, Python

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain simulation environments; Implement control algorithms and XR teleoperation interfaces; Build procedural generation pipelines; Optimize GPU-based physics simulator performance; Import and validate robot assets; Implement Sim2Real pipelines and deploy models to physical robots.