Senior Robotics Simulation Engineer (Hybrid)

Agility Robotics; California; Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) Plan: Company match

Equity / Stock options

Company-paid health insurance

Benefits start day

Employee Assistance Program

Unlimited PTO

12 company holidays

Catered meals / snacks

Parental leave

Tuition reimbursement

Relocation assistance

Annual discretionary bonus

Job summary

Agility Robotics is seeking a senior software engineer to help build the simulation software that underpins our humanoid robots and industrial deployments. You’ll be a founding member of the Simulation team, shaping its technical direction, architecture, and infrastructure, and collaborating with AI, Controls, Perception, Hardware Interfaces, QA, and Systems teams.

This hybrid role requires 3 days on-site per week and offers a competitive salary, stock options, health benefits, and relocation

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional software engineering experience in robotics, simulation or a related field, or a PhD in robotics or CS.
• Strong proficiency in modern C++ and Python.
• Experience with at least one major robotics physics simulator and building rigid-body models (URDF, MJCF, USD).

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and own core components of Agility's simulation stack as a founding member of the Simulation team.
• Develop the hardware abstraction layer connecting sensors, actuators, and physical hardware to simulation environments.
• Develop and integrate physics simulators with a focus on fidelity, performance, and sim2real transfer.
• Build and maintain high-fidelity models of robots, including kinematics, dynamics, mass properties, and actuator models.
• Create robust automated pipelines from hardware design to system-identification for rapid testing of new designs.
• Use simulation to train RL policies, generate synthetic data and evaluate end-to-end models.
• Validate models against physical hardware data and improve fidelity where simulation and reality diverge.

Skills

C++

Python

Robotics simulation

Rigid-body models

Education

B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Robotics, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, or related field

Tools

MuJoCo

Gazebo

Isaac Sim

Git / CI/CD

Job description

Agility Robotics is seeking a senior software engineer to help build the simulation software that underpins our humanoid robots and industrial deployments. You’ll be a founding member of the Simulation team, shaping its technical direction, architecture, and infrastructure, and collaborating with AI, Controls, Perception, Hardware Interfaces, QA, and Systems teams.

This hybrid role requires 3 days on-site per week and offers a competitive salary, stock options, health benefits, and relocation