Senior Research Engineer, Robotics Physics Simulation & AI

NVIDIA; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 224,000 - 357,000; Full time

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Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking a senior or principal engineer specializing in physics-based robotics simulation within the Generalist Embodied Agent Research (GEAR) group. You will contribute to Project GR00T, NVIDIA’s moonshot initiative for humanoid robots, collaborating with a world-class team on multimodal foundation models, large-scale robot learning, and embodied AI.

Develop and maintain MuJoCo/Isaac Sim environments, implement control algorithms and XR teleoperation interfaces, and optimize

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Robotics, Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of full-time industry experience on robotics and/or physics simulation.
• Proven experience with one or more physics simulators such as MuJoCo, Isaac Sim, PyBullet, Drake, or Gazebo.
• Deep knowledge of state-of-the-art simulation techniques, such as accurate contact dynamics for manipulation and locomotion, and photorealistic rendering for perception.
• Expertise in generating simulation assets, task definitions, and building Gym-style APIs to support neural network training.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain simulation environments built on frameworks like MuJoCo, and Isaac Sim to support robotics research.
• Implement and test control algorithms and XR teleoperation interfaces for simulated robots.
• Build procedural generation pipelines for diverse environments, object layouts, and robot motions.
• Optimize GPU-based physics simulator performance for large-scale training workloads.
• Import, configure, and validate robot assets in USD format, ensuring successful sim2real transfer.
• Implement Sim2Real pipelines and deploy learned models to physical robots.

Skills

Robotics simulation

Physics simulation

Gym-style APIs

Simulation asset generation

Contact dynamics knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Robotics, or Engineering

Master’s degree or PhD preferred

Tools

MuJoCo

Isaac Sim

PyBullet

Drake

Gazebo

Job description

NVIDIA is seeking a senior or principal engineer specializing in physics-based robotics simulation within the Generalist Embodied Agent Research (GEAR) group. You will contribute to Project GR00T, NVIDIA’s moonshot initiative for humanoid robots, collaborating with a world-class team on multimodal foundation models, large-scale robot learning, and embodied AI.

Develop and maintain MuJoCo/Isaac Sim environments, implement control algorithms and XR teleoperation interfaces, and optimize