Senior Simulation Engineer – Robotics & Embodied AI

Socket.dev; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Moonlake is seeking a Simulation Engineer to design and build high‑fidelity robotics simulations, covering robot dynamics, sensors, and physics. You will collaborate with robotics, world models, and AI teams to enable learning, evaluation, and synthetic data generation.

The role focuses on scalable workflows, reliable tooling, and improving sim-to-real transfer, with an emphasis on production-quality software infrastructure. This on-site position is based in San Francisco.

Qualifications

• Experience building robotics simulation systems for robotics, autonomy, embodied AI, or physical AI.

Responsibilities

• Design and build robotics simulation environments for training and evaluation.
• Develop scalable simulation workflows enabling rapid robot learning.
• Improve sim-to-real transfer via calibration and validation.
• Build production-quality simulation infrastructure and tooling.

Skills

Robotics simulation

Python

C++

Software engineering

Education

MS or PhD in Robotics, CS, ME, or related

Tools

Isaac Sim

MuJoCo

PyBullet

Gazebo

Drake

ROS2

Job description

Moonlake is seeking a Simulation Engineer to design and build high‑fidelity robotics simulations, covering robot dynamics, sensors, and physics. You will collaborate with robotics, world models, and AI teams to enable learning, evaluation, and synthetic data generation.

The role focuses on scalable workflows, reliable tooling, and improving sim-to-real transfer, with an emphasis on production-quality software infrastructure. This on-site position is based in San Francisco.