Robotics Simulation Software Engineer — Scale & Tools

Amazon Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 185,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Fauna Robotics, an Amazon company, is seeking a Simulation Software Engineer to build environments, tools, and systems for training and evaluating robots in simulation. You will create diverse virtual worlds, test robot behavior, and run large-scale simulations, collaborating with scientists, robotics engineers, and technical artists.

This role focuses on procedural scene generation, automated evaluation, and remotely hosted simulation, with opportunities to work across hardware, software, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language.
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture of new and existing systems.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.
• Experience developing robotics software, simulation systems, real-time applications, or scalable data pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Develop workflows for generating, configuring, and managing diverse scenes, assets, and scenarios.
• Extend simulation to support robot capabilities and interactions among robots, people, and dynamic environments.
• Make simulation experiments reproducible and easy to inspect, with tools for automated evaluation, debugging, and regression testing.
• Build reliable pipelines for generating, processing, and managing simulation data.
• Scale simulation through automation, workload orchestration, and remote hosting, supporting both batch workloads and interactive use.
• Partner with scientists and technical artists to improve simulation performance, usability, and fidelity to real robot behavior (sim2real).

Skills

Non-internship software development

Programming experience

Design/architecture leadership

Mentor or tech lead

Full SDLC experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Isaac Sim

Unreal Engine / Unity

Procedural scene generation

Robotics simulation frameworks

3D math knowledge

Job description

Fauna Robotics, an Amazon company, is seeking a Simulation Software Engineer to build environments, tools, and systems for training and evaluating robots in simulation. You will create diverse virtual worlds, test robot behavior, and run large-scale simulations, collaborating with scientists, robotics engineers, and technical artists.

This role focuses on procedural scene generation, automated evaluation, and remotely hosted simulation, with opportunities to work across hardware, software, and