Robotics Simulation Engineer for Foundation Models (Equity)

NVIDIA; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 184,000 - 357,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking a Research Engineer to develop simulation tools for robot foundation models within the Isaac ecosystem. You will bridge research and product teams to translate ideas into Isaac Lab Arena capabilities and scale them for NVIDIA's user base.

You will collaborate with robotics researchers and product engineers to advance pipelines that combine simulation, machine learning, and agentic workflows, contributing to industry-leading evaluation tools.

Qualifications

• PhD degree in Computer Science, Robotics, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 8+ years of relevant industry or post‑degree research engineering experience in robotics, simulation, or robot learning, with ability to translate research prototypes into product or platform capabilities.
• Proven track record of software design and translating research prototypes into production‑ready software platforms.
• Proficiency using Python and development experience with deep learning software stacks (Pytorch, Jax, etc.).

Responsibilities

• Building simulation frameworks for training and evaluating robot foundation models on top of NVIDIA's Omniverse platform.
• Partner directly with research to design, implement, and evaluate novel algorithms for robot learning.
• Driving technical architecture, setting evaluation standards, and cross-team leadership between Research and Product.
• Working as part of a high-paced software engineering team: design/code reviews, testing, continuous integration, deployment.
• Training and evaluating robot foundation models.
• Integrating modern LLM and agentic workflows into simulation and robotics workflows.
• Working with researchers and product engineers to translate research ideas into Isaac Lab Arena capabilities that can scale to NVIDIA's user base.
• Keeping up to date with the state-of-the-art in robotics research.

Skills

Python

PyTorch

Jax

Deep learning

Education

PhD in Computer Science/Robotics or related field

Tools

CUDA

Isaac Lab

ROS

Isaac Gym

Job description

NVIDIA is seeking a Research Engineer to develop simulation tools for robot foundation models within the Isaac ecosystem. You will bridge research and product teams to translate ideas into Isaac Lab Arena capabilities and scale them for NVIDIA's user base.

You will collaborate with robotics researchers and product engineers to advance pipelines that combine simulation, machine learning, and agentic workflows, contributing to industry-leading evaluation tools.