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NVIDIA · 2 days ago

Senior System Software Engineer, Robotics Simulation

positionSanta Clara, CA
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
seniorityMid, Senior Level
money$148K/yr - $288K/yr
date3+ years exp

NVIDIA is looking for a Senior System Software Engineer for their Robotics Simulation Team, focusing on the development of the Isaac Sim robotics simulation platform. The role involves building tools for robot simulation, maintaining the simulation stack, and integrating APIs for large-scale deployments.

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Responsibilities

Building and integrating tools to configure, simulate, and test robots
Maintain and optimize the existing simulation stack for scalable robot and sensor simulation
Integrate APIs to support large scale simulator deployments on distributed systems
Develop microservices, using ZMQ, DDS, RPC, RESTful and other network level communication APIs

Qualification

C++PythonSystems software engineeringPhysics simulationRoboticsMicroservicesUI/UX experienceMulti-threadingAsynchronous programmingConcurrencyParallelismInterpersonal skillsAdaptability

Required

BS, MS, PhD (or equivalent experience) in Computer Science, Simulation, or related field
3+ years of experience in systems software engineering
Excellent C, C++, and Python programming skills
Flexibility to adapt quickly to varying roles & responsibilities
Experience with physics simulation, robotics or motion planning & controls
Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work optimally with multi-functional teams, principles, and architects across organizational boundaries and geographies

Preferred

Experience with Isaac Sim, Omniverse, USD, MJCF, URDF, CAD formats
Background with physical robots, reinforcement learning, synthetic data generation
Experience with UI/UX for user and developer facing tools
Background with shipping and supporting software products
Experience with system level optimization using multi-threading, asynchronous programming, concurrency and parallelism

Benefits

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Company

NVIDIA

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NVIDIA is a computing platform company operating at the intersection of graphics, HPC, and AI.
dateFounded in 1993
location
Santa Clara, California, USA
people-size10001+ employees
web-link
https://www.nvidia.com

H1B Sponsorship

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Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$4.09B
Key Investors
ARPA-EARK Investment ManagementSoftBank Vision Fund
2023-05-09Grant· $5M
2022-08-09Post Ipo Equity· $65M
2021-02-18Post Ipo Equity

Leadership Team

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Jensen Huang
Founder and CEO
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Michael Kagan
Chief Technology Officer
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