Nvidia

Senior Research Engineer, Simulation

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2 days ago
Santa Clara, CA, USASenior / Staff+
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Base Salary

$224k - $357k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain simulation environments with MuJoCo and Isaac Lab for robotics research.
  • Implement and test control algorithms and XR teleoperation interfaces for simulated robots.
  • Build procedural generation pipelines for environments, object layouts, and robot motions.
  • Optimize GPU-based physics simulator performance for large-scale training workloads.
  • Import, configure, and validate USD robot assets to support sim2real transfer.
  • Implement sim2real pipelines and deploy learned models to physical robots.
  • Coordinate robotics engineers and drive projects from conception to deployment if serving in a technical leadership capacity.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Robotics, Engineering, or a related field.
  • 10+ years of full-time industry experience in robotics and/or physics simulation.
  • Experience with one or more physics simulators such as MuJoCo, Isaac Sim, PyBullet, Drake, or Gazebo.
  • Deep knowledge of simulation techniques including contact dynamics and photorealistic rendering.
  • Expertise generating simulation assets and task definitions and building Gym-style APIs for neural-network training.
  • Preferred qualifications include a master’s or PhD, autonomous-driving or humanoid-robotics experience, robotic hardware deployment and debugging, reinforcement learning and neural-network training, technical leadership, and research publications or open-source simulation contributions.

Benefits

  • Eligible for equity and benefits.

Categories

Robotics
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About Nvidia

10,000+ employees

Nvidia designs and sells GPUs and accelerated computing platforms for data centers, AI/ML, graphics, gaming, and automotive, monetizing through hardware, software platforms (CUDA, AI frameworks), and systems like DGX and networking. Customers include cloud providers, enterprises, researchers, and OEMs. Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Santa Clara, it is a public company traded on NASDAQ under NVDA.

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