Robotics Simulation Engineer – Physical AI & Digital Twins

AutoStore™ • Atlanta, GA

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About The Position

As a Robotics Simulation Engineer at AutoStore, you will build virtual environments for testing robots, grids, and Physical AI systems before they are built. These environments allow teams to test more scenarios than physical prototypes permit and identify failures before they reach the field.

You will join the New Product Development Innovation Team in Atlanta and work closely with the Engineering Tools and Services team. You will collaborate with mechanical, electrical, controls, software, and AI engineers to turn their questions into simulations they can run themselves. The role suits someone who enjoys cross-disciplinary work, building tools for other engineers, and seeing virtual results become real products.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of experience applying simulation in robotics, hardware engineering, or product development.
• Hands-on experience with physics-based robotics simulators such as NVIDIA Isaac Sim, Gazebo, MuJoCo, PyBullet, or Webots.
• Strong Python programming skills and experience automating simulation workflows and analyzing large result sets.
• Solid understanding of rigid-body dynamics, kinematics, sensors, and actuators.
• Experience with automated testing, including software-in-the-loop, hardware-in-the-loop, or simulation in CI/CD.
• Collaborative interpersonal skills and ability to explain results and their uncertainty to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Bachelor's degree or higher in Mechanical, Electrical, or Robotics Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with photorealistic rendering and synthetic data generation, using tools such as Isaac Sim Replicator, NVIDIA Omniverse, Unreal Engine, or Blender, or with reinforcement learning environments such as Isaac Lab or Gymnasium.
• Familiarity with system identification, parameter estimation, sensitivity analysis, or uncertainty quantification.
• Experience with traditional FEA tools such as Ansys Mechanical or Abaqus and 3D CAD tools such as SolidWorks, Creo, or NX.
• Experience scaling simulations across GPUs, clusters, or cloud.
• Background in robotics, logistics automation, or other electromechanical systems.
• C++ programming skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and run physics-based simulation environments, such as NVIDIA Isaac Sim, Gazebo, and MuJoCo, for end-to-end testing of robots and Physical AI products.
• Build digital twins of AutoStore hardware and compare them with lab and field data to measure and improve fidelity.
• Set up software-in-the-loop and hardware-in-the-loop test benches, and add simulation test cases to regression and CI pipelines.
• Develop scenario-generation and stress-testing methods to identify unknown failure modes and edge cases.
• Build tools and automated workflows with the Engineering Tools and Services team so engineers can run what-if analyses and parameter sweeps without being simulation experts.
• Generate synthetic data and simulation environments to train and evaluate perception and AI models.
• Work with teams to select the appropriate level of model detail for each question and present results clearly.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company contribution.
• Generous paid time off, including 12 holidays, paid exercise time, paid volunteer time, and paid parental leave plans for all new parents.
• Retirement 401(k) plan with employer match and discretionary profit-sharing contribution.
• Educational assistance and professional development programs, including mentorship and coaching programs with external industry leaders.
• Group life insurance, voluntary additional life insurance, disability insurance, and employee assistance programs.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level