Senior Robotics Systems Engineer — Sim-to-Real
About The Position
NVIDIA is seeking a senior technical leader to own the engineering loop between physical robots and simulation. The role investigates differences between simulated and real-world behavior, builds systems to measure and model those differences, and drives improvements to robot performance for partners and the broader robotics developer community. This is a hands-on individual-contributor leadership role, not a people-management position. The engineer sets technical direction, writes production software, conducts physical experiments, and leads multidisciplinary contributors through technical influence rather than formal reporting lines.
Requirements
- 12+ years of relevant experience.
- A degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Robotics, Controls, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Physics, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- A consequential technical project personally built, led, and maintained. Publicly inspectable work is strongest evidence; a major closed-source production system also qualifies when its shipped impact and the candidate's contribution can be verified without disclosing confidential information.
- End-to-end ownership of a hard-tech system in robotics, aerospace, automotive, industrial automation, scientific instrumentation, or a comparable field, from physical measurement and modeling through working software and validated results.
- Expert C++ and Python software engineering grounded in first-principles knowledge of dynamics, controls, system identification, numerical methods, applied mathematics, or closely related areas.
Nice To Haves
- Direct experience characterizing robot actuators, sensors, contact, latency, or control behavior with fit-for-purpose instrumentation.
- Experience with Isaac Sim, Isaac Lab, Newton, Warp, MuJoCo, Drake, PhysX, ROS/ROS 2, or comparable platforms.
- Experience turning a successful one-off experiment into a maintained tool, benchmark, model, or workflow used by other engineers.
Responsibilities
- Own DevTech's sim-to-real and real-to-sim function, including experiment design, instrumentation, data capture, system identification, model integration, and hardware validation.
- Build production-quality C++ and Python software for measurement, modeling, simulation, benchmarking, and regression testing.
- Establish quantitative metrics and experiments that isolate causes of simulation error and determine whether changes materially improve real systems.
- Turn evidence from partner robots into reusable workflows and improvements for NVIDIA's robotics and simulation platforms.
- Lead contributors across disciplines without formal authority, create clarity, and remain accountable through integration and sustained use.
Benefits
- Equity
- Benefits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
