Apptronik · 1 day ago
SimOps Engineer
Austin, TX
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
5+ years expApptronik is a human-centered robotics company developing AI-powered robots. They are seeking a SimOps Engineer to architect and maintain the large-scale simulation infrastructure for their humanoid robot, Apollo, focusing on managing virtual environments and ensuring accurate real-world performance.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)IndustrialManufacturingRoboticsIndustrial AutomationMachinery Manufacturing
Responsibilities
Humanoid Simulation Frameworks: Architect and implement scalable, highly-available simulation frameworks. These should support high-fidelity humanoid dynamics, including complex joint interactions and balance controllers, while enabling domain randomization and synthetic data generation
HPC & Cloud Orchestration: Deploy and manage High-Performance Computing (HPC) clusters (e.g., GCP, on-prem) to enable sub-24-hour turnaround for massive, ad-hoc simulation requests and parallelized training workloads
Metrics & Visualization: Establish robust observability and monitoring to provide insight into simulation health, utilization, and performance
Custom Tooling: Develop specialized tools and dashboards (e.g., using Python, Grafana, FastAPI, or Dash) to visualize complex simulation results that require custom interaction or specialized plotting
Automated Data Pipelines: Create automated pipelines to extract, transform, and load (ETL) simulation data for large-scale training and performance benchmarking
CI/CD & Sim-in-the-loop Testing: Establish CI/CD pipelines for automated code generation and Simulation-in-the-Loop performance benchmarking to catch regressions early in the development cycle
Qualification
Required
Expertise in tools such as IsaacSim/IsaacLab, MuJoCo, Gazebo, Omniverse
Proficiency with tools like Grafana for infrastructure and telemetry visualization
Demonstrated experience managing GPU-accelerated HPC clusters on cloud platforms (e.g., AWS/GCP) or on-prem systems
Advanced Python or C++ skills; experience with web frameworks for building internal research tools is a plus; experience with ROS/ROS2 is a plus
Hands-on experience with GitLab, Jenkins, or GitHub Actions for automating software builds and simulation testing
Comfort deploying IaC using tools like Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, Ansible, Docker
Proven ability to conduct system-level optimization for complex robotic architectures to identify high-performance hardware/software solutions
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
Minimum of 5 years of professional, full-time experience in simulation or infrastructure engineering, with a track record of improving simulation through automation
Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer
Must be able to lift 15 pounds at times
Vision to read printed materials and a computer screen
Hearing and speech to communicate
Company
Apptronik
Apptronik is a robotics company that designs and builds human-centered robotics systems.
51-200 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$1.28BKey Investors
B Capital,GoogleHumanoid GlobalB Capital,Capital Factory
2026-02-11Series A· $520M
2025-11-25Series A· $331M
2025-10-02Corporate Round· $0.06M
Leadership Team
Jeffrey Cardenas
CEO
Nicholas Paine
CTO
Recent News
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