Senior Robotics Physics Simulation Engineer

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

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Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation in Santa Clara is seeking a senior/principal engineer specializing in physics simulation to join the Generalist Embodied Agent Research (GEAR) group for Project GR00T, NVIDIA’s moonshot initiative on foundation models and humanoid robotics.

The role focuses on developing and maintaining robotics simulation environments, implementing control algorithms, and building sim2real pipelines to transfer learned models to real robots.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or above in CS, Robotics, Engineering, or related field.
• 10+ years of full-time industry experience in robotics and/or physics simulation.
• Proven experience with physics simulators MuJoCo, Isaac Sim, PyBullet, Drake, or Gazebo.
• Deep knowledge of simulation techniques, such as accurate contact dynamics for manipulation/ locomotion, and photorealistic rendering for perception.
• Expertise generating simulation assets, task definitions, and Gym-style APIs for NN training.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain simulation environments for robotics research.
• Implement and test control algorithms and XR teleoperation interfaces.
• 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 for sim2real transfer.
• Implement Sim2Real pipelines and deploy learned models to physical robots.

Skills

Robotics

Physics simulation

Machine learning

C++

Python

GPU programming

Education

Bachelor's degree or above in CS, Robotics, Engineering or related field

Tools

MuJoCo

Isaac Sim

PyBullet

Drake

Gazebo

Job description

NVIDIA Corporation in Santa Clara is seeking a senior/principal engineer specializing in physics simulation to join the Generalist Embodied Agent Research (GEAR) group for Project GR00T, NVIDIA’s moonshot initiative on foundation models and humanoid robotics.

The role focuses on developing and maintaining robotics simulation environments, implementing control algorithms, and building sim2real pipelines to transfer learned models to real robots.