Senior Simulation Integration Engineer

Job description

Job responsibilities

• ROS2 Stack Integration: Develop and maintain the ROS2 middleware layers (C++/Python) that allow AI models to receive sensor data and send control commands within the simulation.
• Scenario Engineering: Script and implement dynamic testing scenarios (e.g., traffic interactions, pedestrian behavior, triggered events) using Python or simulator-specific APIs.
• Sensor Simulation: Configure and tune simulated sensor suites (LiDAR, Camera, Radar, IMU) to provide realistic data streams for the AI models.
• Bridge Development: Collaborate with our Senior Full-Stack Engineer to ensure simulation states and "Success/Failure" metrics are correctly streamed to our web-based dashboard.
• Headless Orchestration: Ensure simulations can run in "headless" mode within Docker containers for automated, large-scale cloud testing.
• Data Logging: Manage the serialization of ROS2 messages (MCAP/Bag files) for post-simulation analysis and playback.

Job requirements

• Expertise in ROS2: Mastery of ROS2 (Humble, Foxy, or Jazzy), including node composition, custom message types, and QoS configuration.
• Programming: High proficiency in Python 3.x (for scenario logic) and Modern C++ (for performance-critical nodes).
• Simulation Platforms: Proven experience with at least one major simulator (e.g., CARLA, Gazebo, NVIDIA Isaac Sim, or SVL).
• Scenario Logic: Experience building event-driven logic and "adversarial" agent behaviors within a simulated environment.
• Linux & Docker: Strong experience in Ubuntu-based development and containerizing robotics stacks for deployment.
• Systems Thinking: Ability to debug complex timing and synchronization issues between a simulator and a distributed ROS2 stack.
• Experience with automated testing frameworks for robotics.
• Understanding of coordinate frames (TF2) and spatial transformations.