Simulation Engineer: Vehicle Physics for UGVs

NestAI; Helsinki; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Occupational healthcare

Epassi Flex benefit

Lunch benefit

Regular team lunches

Mac or PC of choice

Holiday allowance

Phone benefit

Job summary

NestAI in Helsinki is seeking a Simulation Engineer to build and tune realistic vehicle physics for unmanned ground vehicles within our simulation platform. You will aim for physics fidelity that reflects real-world behavior and work with cross‑functional teams to validate results against physical tests.

Your work includes terrain interaction, vehicle integration, and bringing new platforms into the shared simulator, with a focus on scalable, production‑ready systems.

Qualifications

• Deep experience with vehicle physics in a modern real-time engine.
• Hands-on modelling of tracked and/or wheeled vehicle dynamics.
• Experience integrating simulated vehicle controls with real hardware or controller setups.
• Track record of shipping real, live products, not only prototypes or client projects.
• Strong communication skills; you'll work closely with other teams and with 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 to mirror real behavior.
• Model interactions with diverse terrains to achieve physical accuracy.
• Integrate new vehicles and controllers into the simulation as they become available.
• Bring UGVs into the shared simulation environment with other unmanned platforms.
• Collaborate with teams running physical vehicle tests to validate and refine the simulator.
• Contribute to the broader simulation platform to meet visual and physics fidelity needs.

Skills

Vehicle physics

Unreal Engine 5

Vehicle dynamics modelling

Sim-to-real integration

Shipping real products

Team communication

Scale mindset

Cloud deployment

Tools

Unreal Engine 5

Job description

NestAI in Helsinki is seeking a Simulation Engineer to build and tune realistic vehicle physics for unmanned ground vehicles within our simulation platform. You will aim for physics fidelity that reflects real-world behavior and work with cross‑functional teams to validate results against physical tests.

Your work includes terrain interaction, vehicle integration, and bringing new platforms into the shared simulator, with a focus on scalable, production‑ready systems.