- Robot type
- Robot AI and Software
- Location
- Santa ClaraCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Software
- Posted
- Aug 17, 2026
Robotics Research Engineer - Robot Simulation and Evaluation
Job description
In the NVIDIA Isaac team, we build tools that bring the power of the GPU to bear on one of today’s grand challenges: physical AI. Doing what’s never been done before takes vision, innovation, and the world’s best talent. As an NVIDIAN, you’ll be immersed in an inclusive, encouraging environment where we all work together to advance the frontiers of accelerated computing.
We’re looking for a research engineer to join our team to develop simulation tools built for scientists and companies that are using machine learning to solve the future of robotics.
Job responsibilities
- Building simulation frameworks for training and evaluating robot foundation models on top of NVIDIA's Omniverse platform.
- Partner directly with research to design, implement, and evaluate novel algorithms for robot learning.
- Driving technical architecture, setting evaluation standards, and cross-team leadership between Research and Product.
- Working as part of a high-paced software engineering team: design/code reviews, testing, continuous integration, deployment.
- Training and evaluating robot foundation models.
- Integrating modern LLM and agentic workflows into simulation and robotics workflows.
- Working with researchers and product engineers to translate research ideas into Isaac Lab Arena capabilities that can scale to NVIDIA's user base.
- Keeping up to date with the state-of-the-art in robotics research.
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