NVIDIA · 1 day ago
Senior Research Engineer, Simulation
Santa Clara, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$224K/yr - $356K/yr
10+ years expNVIDIA is searching for a senior or principal engineer who specializes in physics simulation in the Generalist Embodied Agent Research (GEAR) group. You will work with a collaborative research team on projects involving multimodal foundation models, large-scale robot learning, embodied AI, and physical simulation, contributing significantly to research projects and product roadmaps.
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Responsibilities
Develop and maintain simulation environments built on frameworks like MuJoCo, and Isaac Lab to support robotics research
Implement and test control algorithms and XR teleoperation interfaces for simulated robots
Build procedural generation pipelines for diverse environments, object layouts, and robot motions
Optimize GPU-based physics simulator performance for large-scale training workloads
Import, configure, and validate robot assets in USD format, ensuring successful sim2real transfer
Implement Sim2Real pipelines and deploy learned models to physical robots
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science, Robotics, Engineering, or a related field
10+ years of full-time industry experience on robotics and/or physics simulation
Proven experience with one or more physics simulators such as MuJoCo, Isaac Sim, PyBullet, Drake, or Gazebo
Deep knowledge of state-of-the-art simulation techniques, such as accurate contact dynamics for manipulation and locomotion, and photorealistic rendering for perception
Expertise in generating simulation assets, task definitions, and building Gym-style APIs to support neural network training
Preferred
Master's or PhD's degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Engineering, or a related field
Experience at autonomous driving or humanoid robotics companies on physics simulation
Hands-on experience with deploying and debugging neural network models on robotic hardware
Expertise at reinforcement learning and neural network training
Demonstrated Tech Lead experience, coordinating a team of robotics engineers and driving projects from conception to deployment
Contributions to popular open-source simulation frameworks or research publications in top-tier conferences, such as ICRA, IROS, RSS, CoRL
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