Robotics Simulation Engineer — Policy Training & Eval

Maxinsights; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Vision care

Dental coverage

401(k)

Paid holidays

PTO (Paid Time Off)

Sick leave

Job summary

Maxinsights is seeking a Research Engineer to build simulation environments, training workflows, and evaluation systems for embodied AI and robotics. You will create virtual environments and tools to train, test, and evaluate robotic policies at scale before real-world deployment.

Ideal candidates have strong simulation or robotics experience and enjoy building technically grounded environments that enable measurable improvements in robotic performance through domain randomization and robust

Qualifications

• Experience in robotics simulation, robotics research, simulation-based training, or a related technical field.
• Strong Python programming skills and familiarity with relevant robotics or simulation tools.
• Experience with at least one simulation platform, such as Isaac Sim, Isaac Lab, MuJoCo, or an equivalent framework.
• Understanding of robotic systems, 3D environments, physics simulation, or learning-based robotics.
• Experience building functional simulation environments, training workflows, evaluation pipelines, or synthetic data systems.
• Strong debugging and experimental skills, with the ability to validate whether simulation results reflect meaningful real-world behavior.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain simulation environments for robot learning, training, and evaluation.
• Develop robotic tasks, environments, reward functions, and evaluation metrics.
• Work with platforms such as NVIDIA Isaac Sim, Isaac Lab, MuJoCo, or similar simulation frameworks.
• Support simulation-based policy training and automated evaluation at scale.
• Implement domain randomization and other techniques to improve policy robustness and sim-to-real transfer.
• Develop sensor simulation, synthetic data generation, or scene reconstruction workflows as relevant to your specialization.
• Validate simulation results against real-world robot behavior and investigate discrepancies.
• Build reusable simulation tools and pipelines that improve experiment reproducibility and research efficiency.

Skills

Robotics simulation

Python

3D environments

Experimentation

Debugging

Tools

NVIDIA Isaac Sim

MuJoCo

Isaac Lab

Job description

Maxinsights is seeking a Research Engineer to build simulation environments, training workflows, and evaluation systems for embodied AI and robotics. You will create virtual environments and tools to train, test, and evaluate robotic policies at scale before real-world deployment.

Ideal candidates have strong simulation or robotics experience and enjoy building technically grounded environments that enable measurable improvements in robotic performance through domain randomization and robust