Simulation Engineer Jobs
Simulation engineer jobs focus on building high-quality virtual environments that accelerate development of robotics and autonomy systems. These roles typically include simulator platform work, environment authoring, synthetic scenario generation, and integration with testing pipelines. Hiring teams often use Isaac Sim, Gazebo, Omniverse, or custom tooling to validate performance before expensive real-world runs. You may partner with perception, controls, and planning groups to improve simulator realism and coverage against production edge cases. The best candidates combine software infrastructure strengths with practical understanding of robot behavior, sensor physics, and experiment design. If you want to make simulation a central multiplier for engineering velocity and system reliability, this page surfaces simulation-engineer-specific opportunities instead of broader platform listings.
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Software Test Developer, SDET - Robotics
NVIDIA
Senior Software Test Developer, SDET - Robotics
NVIDIA
Senior Machine Learning and Simulation Engineer - Autonomous Vehicles
NVIDIA
Software Test Developer - Robotics
NVIDIA
Senior Robotics Research Scientist
NVIDIA
Senior Manager, Software Engineering - Robotics Manipulation
NVIDIA
Senior Research Engineer, Robotics Systems
NVIDIA
Research Scientist, Robotics Research - PhD New College Grad 2026
NVIDIA
Senior Research Scientist, Multimodal Foundation Models and Robotics
NVIDIA
Senior Research Scientist, Multimodal Foundation Models and Robotics
NVIDIA
Senior Developer Relationship Manager - Autonomous Vehicles
NVIDIA
Senior Solutions Architect, Robotics Foundation Model Training
NVIDIA
NVIDIA 2027 New College Graduate: Autonomous Vehicles and Robotics - China
NVIDIA
Senior Developer Relations Manager – World Models Robotics
NVIDIA
Simulation Engineer, Industrial Physics and Robotics
NVIDIA
Simulation Engineer, Industrial Physics and Robotics
NVIDIA
Senior Developer Relations Manager, Robotics
NVIDIA
Senior Omniverse Engineer, Physical Simulation, Digital Twins and Robotics
NVIDIA
Senior Robotics Research Engineer, Robotics and AI for Drug Discovery
NVIDIA
AI Developer Technology Intern, Robotics - 2027
NVIDIA
What robotics simulation teams hire for
Simulation roles can look similar on the surface but serve different parts of the development loop. Read the job description for the fidelity target, the users of the simulator, and whether the team is training models, validating behavior, commissioning hardware, or building the simulator platform itself.
World and sensor fidelity
Teams may model robot kinematics and dynamics, contacts, cameras, lidar, IMUs, factory assets, or driving environments. Common stacks include Isaac Sim or Isaac Lab, Gazebo, MuJoCo, OpenUSD, Unreal, Unity, and internal engines.
Synthetic data and learning
ML-facing simulation work often includes domain randomization, scenario generation, sensor simulation, annotations, reinforcement-learning environments, and scalable pipelines that connect virtual data to training and evaluation.
Validation and sim-to-real
Production simulation roles increasingly emphasize closed-loop tests, reproducible regression suites, hardware- or software-in-the-loop workflows, and measuring where simulated behavior diverges from real robots.
Search strategy
Search both broad simulation titles and specific tools. A strong match may be called Simulation Engineer, Robotics Simulation Engineer, Synthetic Data Engineer, Digital Twin Engineer, or a platform role supporting autonomy and robot learning.