Senior Robotics Simulation Architect for Physical AI

NVIDIA Gruppe; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 152,000 - 288,000; Full time

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Benefits

Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking a hands-on Solutions Architect to advance robotics simulation, data generation, and sim-to-real workflows. You will partner with researchers, engineers, and customers to translate cutting-edge research into scalable, real-world robotics solutions.

You will lead evaluations, implement reference workflows, and optimize performance across physics, rendering, and data movement. Collaboration with NVIDIA Research, Engineering, and Product will shape our platform and customer

Qualifications

• Experience building robotics simulation applications.
• Deep expertise with robotics simulation platforms and physics.
• Familiarity with ROS 2 and robotics description formats (OpenUSD, URDF, MJCF).
• Proficiency in Python or C++, API integration, and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Work with robotics partners to adopt, extend, and scale NVIDIA’s simulation technologies.
• Build and optimize workflows spanning rigging, physics, multi-solver integration, rendering, sensor simulation, and synthetic data.
• Diagnose integration and performance bottlenecks across simulation, rendering, data movement, and large-scale workloads.
• Lead technical evaluations, PoCs, workshops, and reference implementations.
• Validate approaches with partners, including hybrid physics and neural methods for sim-to-real workflows.
• Collaborate with NVIDIA teams to translate ecosystem needs into roadmap priorities and guidelines.

Skills

Python

C++

APIs

Distributed systems

GPU computing

Communication

Collaboration

Robotics domain knowledge

Education

BS, MS, PhD or equivalent

Tools

Isaac Sim

MuJoCo

Gazebo

Drake

ROS 2

OpenUSD

URDF

MJCF

Job description

NVIDIA is seeking a hands-on Solutions Architect to advance robotics simulation, data generation, and sim-to-real workflows. You will partner with researchers, engineers, and customers to translate cutting-edge research into scalable, real-world robotics solutions.

You will lead evaluations, implement reference workflows, and optimize performance across physics, rendering, and data movement. Collaboration with NVIDIA Research, Engineering, and Product will shape our platform and customer