Simulation Engineer for Digital Twins & Robots

Startupvalleys; Zürich; Hybrid; CHF 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Ownership of product

Mission-driven work

Career runway

Competitive equity/salary package

International founding team

Job summary

Laelaps AI in Zürich, Switzerland, is seeking a Software Engineer for the Simulation (Digital Twins) team. You will build simulation environments and digital twins from lidar maps so robots can observe intrusions, fires and sensor failures across real sites.

You will collaborate with the Skills & Orchestration and Reliability & Test Infrastructure engineers to scale GPU-parallel simulations, train RL policies, and bring new skills from simulation into the real robot deployments.

Qualifications

• 3+ years building robotics simulation or RL training environments.
• Hands-on with Isaac Sim or Isaac Lab; MuJoCo or Gazebo also considered.
• Strong Python; C++ a plus.
• 3D data: point clouds, meshes, scene formats such as USD.

Responsibilities

• Map to twin: pipeline from lidar maps to simulation-ready digital twins: geometry, semantics, materials, sensors.

Skills

Robotics simulation

Reinforcement learning

Python

C++

Isaac Sim

Isaac Lab

MuJoCo

Gazebo

3D data

Point clouds

Lidar

USD

Tools

Isaac Sim

Isaac Lab

MuJoCo

Gazebo

Python

C++

3D data tools

ROS 2

Job description

Laelaps AI in Zürich, Switzerland, is seeking a Software Engineer for the Simulation (Digital Twins) team. You will build simulation environments and digital twins from lidar maps so robots can observe intrusions, fires and sensor failures across real sites.

You will collaborate with the Skills & Orchestration and Reliability & Test Infrastructure engineers to scale GPU-parallel simulations, train RL policies, and bring new skills from simulation into the real robot deployments.