Senior Simulation & ML Platform Engineer

Intuitive Surgical, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 271,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuitive Surgical, Inc. seeks a Senior Software Engineer for its Simulation & ML Platform. You will build software platforms to support simulation-based data generation and ML development for robotic motion AI, collaborating with simulation data scientists and ML teams.

You will translate research and data-science requirements into reliable, scalable software systems, enabling headless, interactive, local, cluster, and cloud execution across platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, robotics, or a related field.
• 5+ years of industry experience developing software for simulation, ML, robotics, CV, or autonomous systems with data formats like Parquet, Zarr, or HDF5.
• Strong proficiency in Python and at least one of C++, Java, or TypeScript.

Responsibilities

• Build software infrastructure for robotic simulations and ML using NVIDIA Isaac Sim, Isaac Lab, MuJoCo, or custom environments.
• Architect scalable pipelines for synthetic and varied robotic data, APIs, CLI tools, and SDKs.
• Develop automated validation pipelines for evolving simulation platforms, engines, and NVIDIA AI ecosystem.

Skills

Python

C++

Java

TypeScript

API design

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

Docker

Linux

Kubernetes

Celery

Redis

Job description

Intuitive Surgical, Inc. seeks a Senior Software Engineer for its Simulation & ML Platform. You will build software platforms to support simulation-based data generation and ML development for robotic motion AI, collaborating with simulation data scientists and ML teams.

You will translate research and data-science requirements into reliable, scalable software systems, enabling headless, interactive, local, cluster, and cloud execution across platforms.