Senior Robotics Simulation Engineer (Hybrid)

Agility Robotics; Fremont (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) Plan with company match

Equity options

Company-paid medical, dental, vision

Benefits start day one

Well-being program

Paid holidays & unlimited PTO (exempt)

Relocation assistance

Annual discretionary bonus

Job summary

Agility Robotics is seeking a senior engineer to help build the simulation software foundation. You will join a new Simulation team, shaping architecture and infrastructure alongside leadership, with cross-team collaboration across AI, Controls, Perception, Hardware Interfaces, QA, and Systems Integration.

You will design core components of the simulation stack, build hardware abstractions, and integrate physics simulators while focusing on fidelity and scalable pipelines.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional software engineering in robotics, simulation or a related field (or PhD).
• Strong proficiency in modern C++ and Python.
• Experience with at least one major robotics physics simulator (MuJoCo, Isaac Sim, Gazebo).
• Experience building rigid-body robot models (URDF, MJCF, USD).
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and compute at scale.
• Solid grasp of Git, CI/CD, Jira or equivalent, and version control practices.

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 high-fidelity robot models including kinematics, dynamics, mass properties, and actuator models.
• Create automated pipelines from hardware design to robot model to system-identification for rapid hardware iteration.
• Use simulation to train RL policies, generate synthetic data, and evaluate end-to-end models.
• Evaluate proposed robot designs with trade studies on actuator sizing, geometry, range of motion, and sensor placement.
• Validate models against physical hardware data and improve fidelity where simulation diverges.

Skills

C++

Python

Robotics simulation

URDF/MJCF/USD

Cloud infrastructure

Git/CI/CD

Cross-team collaboration

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Robotics, CS, ME or related field

Tools

MuJoCo

Isaac Sim

Gazebo

Job description

Agility Robotics is seeking a senior engineer to help build the simulation software foundation. You will join a new Simulation team, shaping architecture and infrastructure alongside leadership, with cross-team collaboration across AI, Controls, Perception, Hardware Interfaces, QA, and Systems Integration.

You will design core components of the simulation stack, build hardware abstractions, and integrate physics simulators while focusing on fidelity and scalable pipelines.