Senior Simulation Engineer for Autonomous Robotics

Xapply; Costa Mesa, Washington (CA, District of Columbia); On-site; USD 191,000 - 253,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries is hiring for the Air Dominance & Strike (AD&S) Group 5 Simulation team to develop foundational simulation capabilities for autonomous robotics and flight testing. You will work on scalable infrastructure and analytics to evaluate thousands of hours of autonomous flight data before real-world deployments.

The role focuses on building cloud-based ETL pipelines, automated simulation environments, and Python tooling to support robotics testing and model validation.

Qualifications

• Prior experience in autonomous systems, aerospace, robotics, or other mission‑critical domains.
• Extensive experience developing simulation tools and infrastructure for leading commercial AV companies.
• Extensive experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and understanding of their core services.

Responsibilities

• Scaling simulation infrastructure for training ML models / quantifying robotics performance
• Cloud-based ETL pipeline infrastructure (Spark, Flyte, Airflow)
• Automated / generative simulation environments for robotics testing
• Developing Python tooling for simulation infrastructure / orchestration

Skills

Autonomous systems

Simulation tooling

Cloud platforms

Tools

Python

Spark

Airflow

Job description

Anduril Industries is hiring for the Air Dominance & Strike (AD&S) Group 5 Simulation team to develop foundational simulation capabilities for autonomous robotics and flight testing. You will work on scalable infrastructure and analytics to evaluate thousands of hours of autonomous flight data before real-world deployments.

The role focuses on building cloud-based ETL pipelines, automated simulation environments, and Python tooling to support robotics testing and model validation.