CareerPlan

Senior Developer Technology Engineer - Simulation Performance

US, CA, Santa ClaraFull-time$224k–$357k2026-10-12 → 2026-11-10

Core

Help partners and customers optimize demanding physics and robotics simulation workloads on NVIDIA platforms by building benchmarks, profiling applications, and improving algorithms and GPU code.

Role type

Senior hands-on IC simulation performance engineer

Builds

Production C++, CUDA, Python, and domain-specific GPU code for simulation platforms and reference implementations

Domain

High-performance computing, physics simulation, robotics, GPU architecture

Required skills

Expert modern C++, GPU parallel programming, performance modeling, numerical methods, geometry processing, reinforcement learning, robotic kinematics

Preferred skills

Physics engines, numerical solvers, differentiable simulation, CUDA, Warp, Newton, PhysX, Isaac Sim, Isaac Lab, MuJoCo, JAX

Technologies

C++, CUDA, Python, JAX, Isaac Sim, Isaac Lab, MuJoCo, PhysX, Warp, Newton

Responsibilities

Establish and execute performance strategies for simulation workloads; Build rigorous benchmarks and performance models; Profile customer applications from system architecture through GPU kernels; Collaborate with partner developers to improve algorithms and data structures; Write and upstream production code into simulation platforms

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC