Senior Robotics Simulation Scientist

Amazon Inc.; Seattle, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 143,000 - 193,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC is seeking a highly qualified robotics simulation scientist to advance next-generation autonomous systems. You will develop high-fidelity simulation tools for rigid and deformable bodies, collaborate with ML and control teams, and push the boundaries of dexterous manipulation and locomotion research.

You will work across simulation pipelines, optimize performance, contribute to validation and testing, and translate theoretical models into production-quality software in a

Qualifications

• PhD, or Master's degree and 2+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience.
• Strong programming skills in modern Python and/or C++ and experience with GPU programming (CUDA, Warp, or similar).
• Experience with robotics simulation environments such as MuJoCo, Newton, Drake and/or Isaac Lab.
• Expertise in one or more of the following: numerical methods for multibody dynamics, frictional contact, FEM, MPM or other approaches for physics-based simulation.
• Experience implementing scientific or simulation software in a collaborative, production-quality codebase.
• Proficiency in linear algebra, differential equations, and numerical analysis.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with simulation and robotics experts to translate physical modeling needs into robust, scalable, and maintainable simulation solutions.
• Design and implement high-performance simulation modeling and tools for rigid and deformable body simulation.
• Identify and optimize performance bottlenecks in simulation pipelines to support real-time and batch simulation workflows.
• Help build validation and unit testing pipelines to ensure correctness and physical fidelity of simulation results.
• Identify potential sources of sim-to-real gaps and propose modeling and numerical approximations to reduce them.
• Stay current with the latest advances in numerical methods, parallel computing, and GPU architectures, and incorporate them into our tools.

Skills

Python programming

C++ programming

GPU programming

Numerical methods

Linear algebra

Differential equations

Education

PhD

Master's degree

Tools

MuJoCo

Newton

Drake

Isaac Lab

CUDA

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC is seeking a highly qualified robotics simulation scientist to advance next-generation autonomous systems. You will develop high-fidelity simulation tools for rigid and deformable bodies, collaborate with ML and control teams, and push the boundaries of dexterous manipulation and locomotion research.

You will work across simulation pipelines, optimize performance, contribute to validation and testing, and translate theoretical models into production-quality software in a