Robotics Simulation Engineer

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain realistic, configurable simulation environments and tools for autonomous surface vessels, drones, ground vehicles, and multi-agent systems.
• Develop scenarios, agent behaviors, traffic patterns, sensors, environmental conditions, mission events, and edge cases.
• Create closed-loop SIL, HIL, replay, regression, and automated scenario-evaluation workflows.
• Integrate simulation with autonomy stacks, mission software, command-and-control systems, sensor models, and data pipelines.
• Build simulation tooling for scenario generation, orchestration, automated testing, visualization, debugging, and results analysis.
• Improve the repeatability, scalability, and adoption of simulation-based testing across engineering teams.
• Use field data, logs, and test results to improve simulation fidelity and reproduce operational failures.
• Partner with Autonomy, Software, Perception, Product, Field Operations, and Program teams to translate requirements into simulation capabilities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Engineering, Simulation, Game Development, Applied Mathematics, Physics, or a related technical field.
• At least 3 years of experience building simulation software, robotics simulation, game-engine environments, developer tooling, or automated test infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience with Unity, Unreal Engine, or similar 3D simulation platforms.
• Strong programming skills in C++, C#, Python, or similar languages.
• Experience building configurable environments, scenario systems, agent behaviors, or automated testing tools.
• Understanding of closed-loop simulation, SIL, HIL, replay testing, or automated system evaluation.
• Experience integrating complex software systems across simulation, data, and robotics workflows.
• Strong debugging, problem-solving, independent ownership, and communication skills.
• U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance.
• Preferred experience includes autonomous vehicles, sensors, robotics, multi-agent environments, Cesium, CARLA, Gazebo, NVIDIA Isaac Sim, AirSim, synthetic data, perception or sensor modeling, physics-based simulation, cloud or distributed simulation, CI/CD-based regression testing, robotics middleware, telemetry, replay tooling, distributed systems, real-time software, or defense and aerospace programs.

Benefits

• 100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision insurance for employees and families.
• Employer-paid life insurance.
• 401(k) participation with matching.
• Unlimited PTO with an enforced two-week minimum.
• Equity package.
• Work/home office stipend.
• Global Entry benefit.
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Monthly health and wellness stipend.