Member of Technical Staff: Engineer, Simulation Content Authoring

Walden Robotics; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual cash bonus

Company equity

Company-subsidized insurance programs

401(k) with company match

Flexible PTO

Daily lunch

Job summary

Walden Robotics is seeking a motivated, hands-on engineer to build simulation content pipelines that create rich, diverse environments for evaluating and improving robot policies.

You’ll design production-quality systems for generating, managing, validating, and deploying scenes, assets, and scenarios at scale, owning substantial parts of the simulation-content authoring stack and integrating with the broader simulation platform.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of relevant experience.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience designing, building, and maintaining substantial software systems.
• Experience building simulation-ready 3D assets, with strong judgment about visual and collision geometry, including trade-offs among fidelity, physical accuracy, and runtime performance.
• Up-to-date knowledge of advances in simulation-ready asset and scene generation, with the ability to evaluate state-of-the-art methods and apply them pragmatically.
• Ability to own ambiguous problem areas from initial design through production deployment.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable systems for authoring simulation scenes, assets, and evaluation scenarios.
• Define simulation tasks and scenarios that reflect real robotics priorities and expose policy weaknesses.
• Develop workflows that make simulation content composable, editable, reproducible, and easy to deploy.
• Build generation and curation pipelines that combine procedural methods, asset libraries, human input, and agentic workflows.
• Create validation and quality-control systems for geometry, physical properties, articulation, scene composition, and task relevance.

Skills

2+ years experience

Software fundamentals

3D asset generation

Simulation pipelines

Ambiguity ownership

Tools

Isaac Sim

MuJoCo

Drake

Job description

Position Summary

We're looking for a motivated, hands‑on engineer to build simulation content pipelines that create rich, diverse, and useful environments for evaluating and improving robot policies. You'll design production‑quality systems for generating, managing, validating, and deploying scenes, assets, and scenarios at scale. As a Member of Technical Staff, you'll own substantial parts of the simulation‑content authoring stack and ensure they integrate cleanly with the broader simulation platform.

Position Summary

We're looking for a motivated, hands‑on engineer to build simulation content pipelines that create rich, diverse, and useful environments for evaluating and improving robot policies. You'll design production‑quality systems for generating, managing, validating, and deploying scenes, assets, and scenarios at scale. As a Member of Technical Staff, you'll own substantial parts of the simulation‑content authoring stack and ensure they integrate cleanly with the broader simulation platform.

Core Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable systems for authoring simulation scenes, assets, and evaluation scenarios.
• Define simulation tasks and scenarios that reflect real robotics priorities and expose policy weaknesses.
• Develop workflows that make simulation content composable, editable, reproducible, and easy to deploy.
• Build generation and curation pipelines that combine procedural methods, asset libraries, human input, and agentic workflows.
• Create validation and quality‑control systems for geometry, physical properties, articulation, scene composition, and task relevance.

Required Qualifications

• 2+ years of relevant experience
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience designing, building, and maintaining substantial software systems.
• Experience building simulation‑ready 3D assets, with strong judgment about visual and collision geometry, including trade‑offs among fidelity, physical accuracy, and runtime performance.
• Up-to‑date knowledge of advances in simulation‑ready asset and scene generation, with the ability to evaluate state‑of‑the‑art methods and apply them pragmatically.
• Ability to own ambiguous problem areas from initial design through production deployment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with agentic systems and LLM‑driven developer tooling.
• Experience with robotics simulation, robot learning, and automated policy evaluation.
• Familiarity with simulation platforms such as Isaac Sim, MuJoCo, or Drake.

Walden Robotics offers a competitive total compensation program, including salary, annual cash bonus, company equity, company‑subsidized insurance programs, 401(k) with company match, flexible PTO, daily lunch, and other benefits. The pay ranges noted on our posts are for salary only.

Walden Robotics is an equal‑opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to [e-mail].

Walden Robotics participates in E‑Verify. If you receive an offer of employment from Walden, you will need to go through the E‑Verify process of digital verification of your employment authorization documents as provided on the Form I‑9. Participation in E‑Verify does not limit your right to work and verification will only be completed after you become an employee with Walden Robotics.

At Walden Robotics, we envision a world where general‑purpose robots dramatically improve the quality of life for all people - supporting us at home, at work, in factories, on farms, and beyond. To accomplish this, we are building a team of exceptional professionals who combine world‑class technical skills with creative vision, grounded in humility and collaboration.