Simulation Engineer

JOB SUMMARY

Few teams get to shape how a humanoid robot learns to perceive, plan, and act — and even fewer let an early-career engineer touch every layer of that stack. As a Simulation Engineer on the Sim team, you’ll contribute across dexterity, design simulation, robot description, and platform tooling, applying strong Python skills, a robotics-fundamentals foundation, and a builder’s curiosity to make our simulation infrastructure faster, cleaner, and more useful every week.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES or KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Author evaluation scenes in Isaac Lab / Isaac Sim from specifications, shortening the loop from “we want to test X” to “X is being tested.”
• Run sim-to-real comparison experiments and produce comparison reports that highlight where simulation diverges from hardware.
• Contribute to the CAD-to-simulation pipeline — kinematic graphs, collision geometry, mass and inertia properties — so the design org can iterate against simulation faster.
• Maintain canonical robot models and the validation tooling that protects them from regressions across releases.
• Improve developer experience on the simulation platform through examples, onboarding documentation, CI infrastructure, and user-issue triage.
• Bring a fresh-eyes perspective to onboarding documentation so the next engineer joining the team gets productive in days, not weeks.

SKILLS AND REQUIREMENTS

• 0–2 years of professional software engineering experience (strong internship or research project experience qualifies)
• Strong Python skills
• Solid fundamentals: rigid body dynamics, linear algebra, spatial math, programming
• Coursework or project experience with robotics simulation, computational geometry, or computer graphics
• Demonstrated curiosity and willingness to work across multiple domains rather than specializing immediately

• Hands-on experience with Isaac Sim, MuJoCo, Gazebo, or equivalent simulator (coursework or projects count)
• Familiarity with USD, URDF, MJCF, or other robot/scene description formats
• Exposure to mechanical engineering, robot hardware, or sim-to-real workflows
• Some C++ exposure
• Internship or research experience in robotics, gaming, or graphics

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

• BS in Computer Science, Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, or related field. MS welcome but not

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS 

• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer
• Must be able to lift 15 pounds at times
• Vision to read printed materials and a computer screen
• Hearing and speech to communicate