System Software Engineer - Robotics Simulation

NVIDIA•Santa Clara, CA

1d•$124,000 - $195,500

About The Position

NVIDIA is seeking a System Software Engineer for its Robotics Simulation Team. The team works on NVIDIA Isaac Sim, a robotics simulation platform that uses AI and GPU technologies to help researchers and engineers develop, train, validate, and optimize intelligent robots for real-world scenarios. The role focuses on building and integrating simulation tools, maintaining and optimizing the simulation stack, supporting large-scale deployments on distributed systems, and developing networked microservices.

Requirements

Bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral degree (or equivalent experience) in Computer Science, Simulation, or a related field.
At least 2 years of relevant experience in systems software engineering.
Excellent C, C++, and Python programming skills.
Flexibility to adapt quickly to varying roles and responsibilities.
Experience with physics simulation, robotics, or motion planning and controls.
Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively with multifunctional teams, principals, and architects across organizational boundaries and geographies.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Isaac Sim, Omniverse, USD, MJCF, URDF, or CAD formats.
Background with physical robots, reinforcement learning, or synthetic data generation.
Experience with UI/UX for user- and developer-facing tools.
Background with shipping and supporting software products.
Experience with system-level optimization using multithreading, asynchronous programming, concurrency, and parallelism.

Responsibilities

Build and integrate tools to configure, simulate, and test robots.
Maintain and optimize the existing simulation stack for scalable robot and sensor simulation.
Integrate APIs to support large-scale simulator deployments on distributed systems.
Develop microservices using ZMQ, DDS, RPC, RESTful, and other network-level communication APIs.