Bear Robotics · 3 weeks ago
Senior Simulation Engineering Manager
Redwood City, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
5+ years expBear Robotics is seeking a Senior Simulation Engineering Manager to lead the team responsible for building and maintaining simulation and automated testing platforms for robotics development. The role involves strong leadership and technical oversight, ensuring high-quality infrastructure for validating robot behavior at scale.
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Responsibilities
Own team capacity, staffing, and prioritization across all simulation and test infrastructure work
Work with Directors and engineering TLs to define quarterly/yearly roadmaps and engineering commitments
Provide clear, data-driven decisions on tradeoffs, sequencing, and resource allocation
Lead hiring, performance evaluations, career development, and coaching for engineers
Oversee the architecture and operation of simulation tools (Gazebo), automated test pipelines, and orchestration systems
Partner with TLs on long-term strategy for simulation fidelity, performance, and scalability
Ensure reliability, reproducibility, and consistency across simulation and automated testing environments
Drive improvements in CI/CD integration, automation frameworks, and system observability
Collaborate closely with navigation, perception, behavior, hardware, and QA teams to ensure simulation tools meet cross-team needs
Coordinate complex test requirements and surface integration risks early
Translate team and system requirements into actionable plans and realistic commitments
Communicate system constraints, simulation limitations, and technical tradeoffs clearly to stakeholders and leadership
Qualification
Required
5+ years of experience in robotics simulation, automation infrastructure, or backend/distributed systems
Strong background with Gazebo (or similar simulators), ROS/ROS2, Docker, VM/container orchestration, and Python
Experience designing or operating large-scale automated test systems or CI/CD pipelines
2+ years managing or technically leading engineers
Comfort balancing technical depth with organizational leadership and cross-team coordination
Preferred
Experience with cloud orchestration, distributed job systems, or robotics CI frameworks is a strong plus
Company
Bear Robotics
Bear Robotics is an AI-automated robotics platform that offers for the food service and hospitality field.
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$175.75MKey Investors
LG ElectronicsIMMSoftBank
2025-01-24Acquired
2024-03-11Series C· $60M
2022-03-15Series B· $81M
Leadership Team
John Ha
Founder, CEO
Juan Higueros
Co-Founder | Chief Operating Officer
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