OpenAI · 5 months ago
Simulation Environments Engineer
San Francisco
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$325K/yr - $405K/yrOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They are seeking a Simulation Environments Engineer to lead the simulation environments initiative, focusing on scaling virtual environments for robotics training and validation. The role involves designing and building high-performance simulators, collaborating with various teams, and establishing best practices for simulation scenarios.
Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
Responsibilities
Design, build, and maintain a high-performance, scalable simulator integrations that meshes cleanly with our existing codebase and data pipelines
Curate, convert, and quality-check open-source environment assets so they can be deployed at scale across our simulation farm
Develop domain- and task-randomization frameworks that systematically expose models to diverse visual, physical, and kinematic conditions
Lead proof-of-concept collaborations with external GPU-accelerated simulation vendors to benchmark new features and influence roadmap priorities
Establish best practices for versioning, testing, and validating simulated scenarios against real-world benchmarks
Qualification
Required
Experience in designing, building, and maintaining high-performance, scalable simulator integrations
Ability to curate, convert, and quality-check open-source environment assets for deployment at scale
Experience in developing domain- and task-randomization frameworks for diverse visual, physical, and kinematic conditions
Experience leading proof-of-concept collaborations with external GPU-accelerated simulation vendors
Knowledge of best practices for versioning, testing, and validating simulated scenarios against real-world benchmarks
Enjoyment in plumbing every layer of a robotics simulation stack, including CAD import and asset optimization
Keeping current with advances in physics engines, differentiable simulation, and synthetic-data generation for robot learning
Experience leading projects that bridge simulation and robotics, including teleoperation or hardware-in-the-loop testing
Satisfaction in building ergonomic tools, templates, and documentation for engineers and researchers
Hands-on experience optimizing GPU pipelines, distributed compute jobs, or large-scale reinforcement-learning workloads
Experience building NVIDIA Isaac sim environments or environments in other open source world simulation engines
Desire to build creative tasks to challenge cutting edge large action models
Benefits
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Company
OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops advanced AI models, including ChatGPT. It is a sub-organization of OpenAI Foundation.
Founded in 2015
201-500 employees
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$79BKey Investors
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2025-12-11Corporate Round· $1B
2025-10-02Secondary Market· $6.6B
2025-03-31Series Unknown· $40B
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CEO & Co-Founder
Greg Brockman
President, Chairman, & Co-Founder
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