16h ago

Robotics & Simulation Engineer, Discovery

Costa Mesa, California

$146k-$194k / year

full-timesenior

๐Ÿ›  Tech Stack

๐Ÿ’ผ About This Role

You'll own and scale simulation environments and training-to-deployment pipelines for autonomous robotic systems at a defense technology company. Your work will directly impact mission-critical RL and IL training infrastructure for national security applications.

๐ŸŽฏ What You'll Do

  • Own and scale simulation environments for RL training (Isaac Gym, Isaac Lab, MuJoCo)
  • Build and maintain training-to-deployment pipeline: model export, validation, on-robot inference
  • Develop telemetry and diagnostics tooling for real-time robot state and anomaly detection
  • Design safety systems: software e-stops, joint limit monitors, fall detection interlocks

๐Ÿ“‹ Requirements

  • 3+ years experience in robotics simulation, robot software infrastructure, or ML training infrastructure
  • Experience with physics simulation tools: NVIDIA Isaac Gym/Lab, MuJoCo, PhysX, or PyBullet
  • Strong software engineering skills in Python
  • Experience with URDF/MJCF model creation and maintenance

โœจ Nice to Have

  • Experience with NVIDIA Isaac Sim / Omniverse
  • Experience with distributed training infrastructure or cluster management
  • Familiarity with ROS2, robot middleware, or real-time systems

๐ŸŽ Benefits & Perks

  • ๐Ÿ–๏ธ Unlimited PTO
  • ๐Ÿฅ Comprehensive health insurance
  • ๐Ÿ’ฐ Highly competitive equity grants
  • ๐Ÿ“ˆ 401(k) matching

๐Ÿ“จ Hiring Process

Estimated timeline: 3-4 weeks ยท AI estimate

  1. 1Recruiter Phone Screenยท 30 min
  2. 2Technical Interviewยท 60 min
  3. 3On-site Interviewยท 4 hours
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