Senior Asset Pipeline Engineer - Sensor Platform
Applied Intuition4 months ago
Base Salary
$151k - $230k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design the OpenUSD schema and composition strategy for a scalable, versioned 3D asset library.
- Build and own automated pipelines moving assets between DCC tools and real-time or simulation engines.
- Define automated CI validation gates for asset integrity and fidelity before production.
- Develop material conversion workflows using UsdShade and MDL where needed while preserving sensor-simulation fidelity.
- Design asset metadata supporting 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 on architecture and production delivery.
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 version-controlled Python DCC-to-engine pipelines with CI and downstream users.
- Experience managing USD at library scale, including versioning, identifier and namespace conventions, and validation across thousands of assets.
- Nice-to-have experience with NVIDIA Omniverse, Isaac Sim, Kit extensions in Python or C++, USD ingest, or Replicator and synthetic-data-generation pipelines.
- Nice-to-have experience with Houdini LOPs, MDL, sensor simulation, automotive, defense, robotics simulation, or ROS 2.
Benefits
- Primarily in-office work five days per week, with occasional remote-work flexibility and schedule flexibility for personal or family commitments.
- Equal opportunity employer and federal contractor or subcontractor.
About Applied Intuition
Applied Intuition builds software tools, infrastructure, and operating systems for developing, testing, and deploying autonomous and driver-assistance systems across automotive, trucking, defense, construction, mining, and agriculture. It sells enterprise software and services including simulation, sensor data management, HD mapping, and a vehicle OS to OEMs and government customers. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, it counts 18 of the top 20 global automakers and the U.S. military among its users.