Senior Simulation Engineer

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Build a visually realistic simulator to test full end-to-end autonomy stack behavior, from simulating sensors to motion planning, across a range of scenario conditions.
• Prototype and integrate with internal and third-party simulators to evaluate their ability to support learned system testing.
• Curate scenarios, system introspection.
• Build data logging frameworks used during large-scale virtual tests.
• Collaborate closely with autonomy, ML, and integration teams to define simulation entry points, runtime configs, and closed-loop evaluation metrics.
• Build diagnostic tooling and analysis pipelines to understand and improve real system behavior in simulation.
• Lead cross-functional efforts to close the gap between simulation and on-vehicle deployment, increasing the reliability of sim-based validation.
• Provide technical mentorship and foster a collaborative, high-trust engineering culture across organizational boundaries.

Job requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Robotics, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in robotics, autonomous systems, or simulation.
• Experience with 3D reconstruction (e.g. Gaussian Splatting, Neural radiance fields, etc).
• Experience with 3D generation.
• Experience with Unreal Engine.
• Strong programming skills in Python and C++, especially for robotics or systems development.
• Experience with simulation platforms (e.g., CARLA, Applied Intuition, Nvidia DriveSim, etc) and their integration into autonomous system workflows.
• Knowledge of sensor simulation principles and how perception systems interact with synthetic data.