Simulation Jobs
Simulation jobs sit at the center of modern Physical AI development because most teams cannot validate every scenario in the physical world first. These roles span simulator tooling, environment modeling, synthetic data generation, and test infrastructure for robotics and autonomy programs. You will see work involving Unreal, Unity, Isaac Sim, Gazebo, Omniverse, and custom internal engines designed for scale and reproducibility. Strong candidates often combine software engineering depth with practical intuition around physics, sensor behavior, and system-level performance metrics. Many simulation teams partner directly with controls, perception, and autonomy engineers to close gaps between virtual and real behavior. If you enjoy building fast feedback loops for embodied systems, this page highlights simulation opportunities where your work can accelerate development cycles across entire organizations.
Popular roles in this area
Top hiring companies
2002 matched positions
Sorted by newest listings
Research Scientist, RL for Autonomous Planning & World Modeling
Waymo
Machine Learning Engineer, Maneuvering Tech
Waymo
Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Maneuvering Tech
Waymo
Staff Technical Lead Manager, Scenes
Waymo
Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Data Flywheel
Waymo
Staff Software Engineer / Technical Lead Manager
Waymo
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Perception LLM/VLM
Waymo
Machine Learning Engineer Perception LLM/VLM (PhD, New Grad)
Waymo
Technical Lead Manager, Machine Learning, Maneuvering Tech
Waymo
Technical Lead Manager, Perception, Traffic Control Understanding
Waymo
Software Engineer, Statistical Evaluation and Sampling
Waymo
Software Quality Operations Specialist
Waymo
Staff Technical Lead Manager, Simulation, Machine Learning
Waymo
Staff TLM, Perception, Sensor Pipelines
Waymo
Senior Software Engineer, Bulk/Interactive Inference
Waymo
Staff Data Scientist
Waymo
Technical Lead Manager, Multiverse
Waymo
Software Engineer, GPU
Waymo
Tech Lead Manager, Backend
Waymo
Senior Software Engineer, Quantitative Evaluations
Waymo
Recent jobs
Senior Robotics Engineer - Robot Perception
Symbotic
NVIDIA 2027 Internships: Autonomous Vehicles and Robotics
NVIDIA
Senior Machine Learning and Simulation Engineer - Autonomous Vehicles
NVIDIA
Senior Software Systems Engineer, L3 and L4 - Autonomous Driving
NVIDIA
Senior Research Engineer - Autonomous Vehicles
NVIDIA
Senior Software Test Developer, SDET - Robotics
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.