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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Genesis-World: Core Simulation Engine Engineer
Genesis AI
Senior Curriculum Developer, sUAS Operations
Skydio
Senior Navigation and Localization Engineer for Mobile Robotics (human)
NEURA Robotics
Simulation and Validation Software Engineer
Mind Robotics
Senior Systems Engineer
Humanoid
Senior Machine Learning Engineer – Predictive World Model
XPENG
Simulation Engineer – Cognitive Twin (human)
NEURA Robotics
Integration & Distributed Systems Engineer – Cognitive Twin (human)
NEURA Robotics
Modeling and Simulation Engineer
Maven Robotics
Research Scientist, Simulation
Dyna Robotics
Teamlead AI Engineering - NEURAGym (human)
NEURA Robotics
Autonomy Software Engineering Internship, World Modeling
Persona AI
Principal Tools Engineer, Simulation
1X
Robotics Engineer - Singapore: AI Specialist
General Robotics
System Test Engineer - Humanoid (human)
NEURA Robotics
Software Engineer in Test, Robotics Middleware & Systems - Humanoid (human)
NEURA Robotics
Systems Engineer, Robotics Hardware
FieldAI
Deep Learning Engineer - World Models
Humanoid
Reinforcement Learning Engineer - Manipulation
Humanoid
Robot Platform Engineer - Humanoid (human)
NEURA Robotics
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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.