Real-Time Vehicle Physics Simulation Engineer

NestAI; Turku; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Occupational healthcare

Flex benefit

Lunch benefit

Regular team lunches

Choice of Mac or PC

Holiday allowance

Phone benefit

Job summary

NestAI, a European AI lab for defence, seeks a physics-focused simulation engineer in Finland to advance unmanned ground vehicle simulations. You’ll join the Simulation Chapter to ensure vehicle physics closely match real-world behavior and support physics-driven validation against hardware tests.

You will integrate new vehicles, connect controllers to the simulation, and ensure a shared environment across unmanned platforms, collaborating with teams running physical tests.

Qualifications

• Deep experience with vehicle physics in a modern real-time engine (e.g., Unreal Engine 5).
• Hands-on experience modelling tracked and/or wheeled vehicle dynamics, for example from racing sims or vehicle simulators.
• Experience integrating simulated vehicle controls with real hardware or controller setups.
• A track record of shipping real, live products, not only prototypes or client projects, with the mindset of someone who owns long-term outcomes.
• Strong communication skills. You’ll work closely with other teams and with the people running physical vehicle tests.
• A mindset built for scale: you’ve worked in larger engineering teams or organisations, and you’re ready for a team that will keep growing.
• Experience deploying real-time or simulation workloads to the cloud is a plus

Responsibilities

• Build and tune realistic vehicle physics for unmanned ground vehicles, so behaviour in simulation reliably reflects the real vehicle.
• Work on how vehicles interact with different types of terrain, aiming for physical accuracy rather than just visual realism.
• Integrate new vehicles and controllers into the simulation as they become available.
• Bring UGVs into the same shared simulation environment as our other unmanned platforms.
• Partner with the team running physical vehicle tests, using their measurements to validate and refine the simulation.
• Contribute to the wider simulation platform, helping it meet both visual and physics fidelity requirements.

Skills

Vehicle physics

Vehicle dynamics

Hardware integration

Product shipping

Communication

Scale/team experience

Cloud deployment

Job description

NestAI, a European AI lab for defence, seeks a physics-focused simulation engineer in Finland to advance unmanned ground vehicle simulations. You’ll join the Simulation Chapter to ensure vehicle physics closely match real-world behavior and support physics-driven validation against hardware tests.

You will integrate new vehicles, connect controllers to the simulation, and ensure a shared environment across unmanned platforms, collaborating with teams running physical tests.