Senior Asset Pipeline Engineer - Sensor Platform
Applied Intuitionabout 2 months ago
Base Salary
$151k - $230k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design the OpenUSD schema and composition strategy for a large, versioned 3D asset library spanning authoring tools and simulation engines.
- Build and own automated pipelines that move assets between DCC tools and real-time or simulation engines.
- Define CI validation gates for asset integrity and fidelity before production deployment.
- Develop physically accurate material conversion using UsdShade and MDL where needed.
- Design asset metadata for discovery, semantic labeling, and downstream tooling.
- Own the pipeline from design through production, including observability, reliability, and content-authoring usability.
- Partner with simulation and infrastructure teams to make core architecture decisions and deliver the system to production.
Requirements
- Deep practical expertise with OpenUSD composition, including references, variants, payloads, inherits, and specializes.
- Experience authoring and validating custom USD API and applied schemas.
- Strong UsdShade expertise for authoring, validating, and converting complex material networks.
- Production experience building and owning automated DCC-to-engine pipelines using version-controlled Python in CI.
- Experience managing USD libraries at scale, including versioning, identifier and namespace conventions, and validation across thousands of assets.
- Nice-to-have experience with NVIDIA Omniverse, Isaac Sim, Kit extensions, USD ingest, Replicator, or synthetic-data-generation pipelines.
- Nice-to-have experience with Houdini LOPs, MDL, sensor simulation, or automotive, defense, and robotics simulation.
- ROS 2 and scene assembly experience are additional pluses.
Benefits
- Primarily in-office work 5 days per week, with occasional remote-work flexibility and schedule flexibility for personal commitments.
- Equal opportunity employer and federal contractor or subcontractor.