Sr. Software Engineer

HERE Technologies•Chicago, IL

27d•$130,000 - $140,000

About The Position

We are hiring a Senior Simulation Engineer to own core simulation and geospatial systems that support advanced AI, perception, and mapping products. This person will work across simulation environments, map-derived scene construction, actor behavior, sensor and condition generation, and the systems needed to make these capabilities reliable at production quality. This is a senior hands-on role for someone who can build robust technical foundations that remain useful across simulation-driven AI programs, not just a single initiative. What You Will Own: - Own critical pieces of the simulation and geospatial systems stack - Build and maintain simulation pipelines for scene construction, actor behavior, sensor or condition generation, and related tooling - Define reliable environment and scenario setup for both prototype and production use cases - Ensure scene structure is technically sound, scalable, and faithful to upstream map or scenario inputs - Partner with data scientists and platform engineers to make simulation outputs usable for inference, evaluation, and production workflows What You Will Do: - Build tooling for ingesting, validating, and operationalizing map or scenario inputs into simulation systems - Resolve scene construction, routing, drivability, actor-behavior, and environmental fidelity issues - Configure scenario generation, actor control, camera behavior, and related simulation outputs for repeatable and scalable operation - Generate packaged simulation outputs with the metadata needed for reproducibility, evaluation, and production traceability - Troubleshoot simulation failures such as unstable actors, broken topology, invalid map elements, or poor output fidelity - Contribute to the roadmap for broader coverage, richer scenarios, and production-quality simulation operations

Requirements

Strong experience with simulators, robotics simulation, game engines, or scene-generation systems
Experience working with map formats, routing graphs, geospatial data, or autonomous-system simulation stacks
Strong Python and systems debugging skills
Ability to balance realism, stability, scalability, and delivery speed in an evolving product setting
Comfort operating independently in an ambiguous technical program

Nice To Haves

Experience with traffic behavior modeling, sensor configuration, condition-representation generation, scenario generation, or map-grounded simulation
Familiarity with autonomous-system data pipelines, geospatial tooling, or synthetic-data production flows
Experience with Unreal Engine or related simulation environments

Responsibilities

Own critical pieces of the simulation and geospatial systems stack
Build and maintain simulation pipelines for scene construction, actor behavior, sensor or condition generation, and related tooling
Define reliable environment and scenario setup for both prototype and production use cases
Ensure scene structure is technically sound, scalable, and faithful to upstream map or scenario inputs
Partner with data scientists and platform engineers to make simulation outputs usable for inference, evaluation, and production workflows
Build tooling for ingesting, validating, and operationalizing map or scenario inputs into simulation systems
Resolve scene construction, routing, drivability, actor-behavior, and environmental fidelity issues
Configure scenario generation, actor control, camera behavior, and related simulation outputs for repeatable and scalable operation
Generate packaged simulation outputs with the metadata needed for reproducibility, evaluation, and production traceability
Troubleshoot simulation failures such as unstable actors, broken topology, invalid map elements, or poor output fidelity
Contribute to the roadmap for broader coverage, richer scenarios, and production-quality simulation operations