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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Senior Workflow Specialist - Isaac Robotics
NVIDIA
Senior Robotics Systems Engineer - Neural Reconstruction and Real2Sim Applications
NVIDIA
Senior Staff Robotics Simulation Engineer - Thermal & Fluids Analysis
Boston Dynamics
Intern Artificial Intelligence in Robotics (f/m/x)
BMW Group
2027 Summer Intern, MS, PhD, Software Engineer
Waymo
Staff Robot Architect - Platform Software Specialist
Agility Robotics
Staff Robotics Architect - Electrical Hardware
Agility Robotics
Staff Robot Architect - Dynamic Simulation Specialist
Agility Robotics
Senior AI Research Engineer
Agility Robotics
Staff HiL SW Infrastructure Engineer
Agility Robotics
Staff Systems Validation Engineer
Agility Robotics
Senior Director, AI
Agility Robotics
Engineering Intern
The Robotics Company
Thesis Work - Whole-Body Teleoperation and Imitation Learning for Humanoid Robots
ABB Robotics
Thesis Work - Tactile-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Contact-Rich Manipulation
ABB Robotics
Software Engineer - Modeling & Simulation
Anduril
Senior Robotics Engineer, Maritime Enabling Technology
Anduril
Staff Robotics Software Engineer - Mission Autonomy
Anduril
Robotics Software Engineer, Test Infrastructure (SITL/HITL)
Anduril
Mission Autonomy Lead - Thunder
Anduril
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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.