Lead Simulation Engineer, Robotics & RL

General Intuition; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

General Intuition in New York, NY is seeking a hands-on senior simulation engineer to push the envelope in robotic control and environment realism. You will own both low-level controller development and high-level policy integration, bridging simulation and real-world robotics across multiple embodiments.

The role emphasizes building end-to-end simulation environments, solver configurations, and domain randomization to support RL and real-world deployment, with onsite collaboration in NY,

Qualifications

• Deep, hands-on simulation experience in production environments.
• 6+ years of hands-on exposure to robot learning in simulation (contact-rich manipulation, legged locomotion, whole-body control, or similar).
• Proven ability to bridge simulation and real-world robotic systems with deployments on real robots.
• Track record of building simulation from scratch and making it a reliability anchor for others.
• Experience leading simulation while staying hands-on, setting technical direction and possibly hiring.
• Knowledge across the stack from solver and low-level controllers to high-level policies.

Skills

Simulation experience

Reinforcement learning

Sim-to-real transfer

Tools

Isaac Gym/Isaac Sim

MuJoCo

Job description

General Intuition in New York, NY is seeking a hands-on senior simulation engineer to push the envelope in robotic control and environment realism. You will own both low-level controller development and high-level policy integration, bridging simulation and real-world robotics across multiple embodiments.

The role emphasizes building end-to-end simulation environments, solver configurations, and domain randomization to support RL and real-world deployment, with onsite collaboration in NY,