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Senior Research Engineer, Simulation

US, CA, Santa Clara💼 Full-time💰 $224,000–$224,000🗓 2026-01-09 → 2026-08-01

Core

Developing physics simulation environments and Sim2Real pipelines for humanoid robot foundation models and large-scale robot learning.

Role type

Senior Research Engineer, Simulation

Builds

Simulation environments, control algorithms, procedural generation pipelines, and Sim2Real deployment pipelines for physical robots.

Domain

Robotics, Physics Simulation, Embodied AI

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Physics simulation (MuJoCo, Isaac Sim, PyBullet, Drake, Gazebo), GPU optimization, procedural generation, Sim2Real transfer, USD asset configuration, Gym-style API development, neural network training, reinforcement learning

Preferred skills

Autonomous driving or humanoid robotics experience, deploying/debugging NN models on robotic hardware, Tech Lead experience, open-source contributions, top-tier conference publications

Technologies

MuJoCo, Isaac Lab, Isaac Sim, USD, MuJoCo, PyBullet, Drake, Gazebo, Gym

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 learned models to physical robots

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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