Member of Technical Staff – Simulation Engineer

Location
San Francisco
Workplace
On-site
Employment
Full-time
Compensation
$150k – $300k + equity
Visa
Visa Sponsorship Available

About this role

We are looking for a Member of Technical Staff – Simulation Engineer with 0+ years of experience to build the simulations and digital assets that generate synthetic data for some of the world's most advanced frontier robotics labs. We're open to fresh PhD/Master's grads and seasoned simulation veterans alike. If you're brilliant and want to be at the bleeding edge of world models, this is your seat. Major new contracts have created an immediate need to scale the team.

What will you be doing?

  • Building high-fidelity robotics simulations and 3D digital assets at scale using Blender and Python
  • Generating synthetic training data that solves robotics' biggest bottleneck: the lack of physical-world data
  • Developing simulation infrastructure and pipelines for creating, running, and evaluating environments
  • Modeling robot dynamics, physics, and interactions for humanoids, manipulators, and robotic arms
  • Collaborating with a team of PhD researchers building the future robotic brain

Key Requirements

  • Strong hands-on experience with Blender and Python (the #1 priority)
  • Experience building high-fidelity simulation systems or infrastructure, in a PhD program or industry
  • Either hyper-relevant simulation work at a robotics, world-model, or big tech company, or a degree from a top-10 university (MS/PhD strongly preferred)
  • Robotics or AI simulation background. No autonomous vehicle, drone, aerospace, or defense simulation profiles
  • Able to work on-site in San Francisco 5 days a week

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Culture & values

Most of the team are PhD researchers

Members of Technical Staff with very different levels of experience, from recent PhD and master's graduates to well-known senior researchers

Includes a famous Stanford professor who works here as an individual contributor researcher

Teams across robotics, world models, AI systems and simulation infrastructure, working closely together

Fully in-person: The team works on-site in downtown San Francisco, in the Financial District next to Salesforce Tower

Simulation engineers work in the office five days a week

Intense and driven: Everyone works very hard and cares deeply about their work

The team works on the newest problems in world models and embodied AI

Small team of about 25 people

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