Senior Simulation Engineer — Remote/Hybrid Robotics

Agility Robotics; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); Remote; USD 181,000 - 282,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) Plan with company match

Equity in company

Health, dental, vision insurance

Paid time off & holidays

Relocation assistance

Annual discretionary bonus

Job summary

Agility Robotics is seeking a senior software engineer to help build the simulation stack that underpins its humanoid robots. You will join a founding Simulation team, shaping architecture, infrastructure, and tooling to accelerate development and validate designs.

You will work across hardware and software teams to implement physics-based simulations, model robotics dynamics, and enable sim2real transfer. This role offers hybrid or remote work with travel as needed.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software eng. experience in robotics or similar.
• Experience building simulation infrastructure, tooling, or robot models for real-world systems.
• Strong proficiency in C++ and Python.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and own core components of Agility's simulation stack as a founding member of the Simulation team.
• Develop hardware abstraction layer connecting sensors/actuators to simulation environments.
• Integrate physics simulators with focus on fidelity, performance, sim2real transfer.
• Model high-fidelity robot models including kinematics, dynamics, and actuators.
• Create robust pipelines from hardware design to model validation for rapid hardware iteration.
• Use simulation to train RL policies and generate synthetic data for end-to-end evaluation.
• Collaborate across hardware/software teams and mentor new engineers.

Skills

C++

Python

Robotics simulation

Multibody dynamics

Git/CI-CD

Education

B.S. in Robotics

MS or PhD preferred

Tools

MuJoCo

Gazebo

URDF

Job description

Agility Robotics is seeking a senior software engineer to help build the simulation stack that underpins its humanoid robots. You will join a founding Simulation team, shaping architecture, infrastructure, and tooling to accelerate development and validate designs.

You will work across hardware and software teams to implement physics-based simulations, model robotics dynamics, and enable sim2real transfer. This role offers hybrid or remote work with travel as needed.