Senior Robotics Sim-to-Real Architect

NVIDIA Gruppe; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 224,000 - 431,000; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking a senior technical leader to own the engineering loop between physical robots and simulation. You will determine why simulated and real behavior differ, build the systems needed to measure and model that difference, and drive the work until it improves robot performance for our partners and the broader robotics developer community.

This is a hands-on leadership role focused on technical influence rather than management.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of relevant experience.
• End-to-end ownership of a hard-tech system in robotics or a comparable field.
• Expert C++ and Python software engineering, grounded in dynamics and controls.
• Publicly inspectable work is the strongest evidence of impact.

Responsibilities

• Own the sim-to-real and real-to-sim function: experiment design, instrumentation, data capture, modeling, and validation on hardware.
• Build production-quality C++ and Python software for measurement, modeling, and regression testing.
• Establish quantitative metrics and experiments that isolate causes of simulation error and show improvements.
• Turn evidence from partner robots into reusable workflows for NVIDIA's robotics and simulation platforms.
• Lead contributors across disciplines through technical influence.

Skills

C++

Python

Controls

System identification

Numerical methods

Dynamics

Education

Engineering degree

Tools

ROS/ROS 2

MuJoCo

PhysX

Warp

Drake

Isaac Sim

Job description

NVIDIA is seeking a senior technical leader to own the engineering loop between physical robots and simulation. You will determine why simulated and real behavior differ, build the systems needed to measure and model that difference, and drive the work until it improves robot performance for our partners and the broader robotics developer community.

This is a hands-on leadership role focused on technical influence rather than management.