Robotics Software Engineer, Simulations

Responsibilities

• Build models of machine devices—including motion axes, sensors, grippers, and surrounding machinery—that behave like the real hardware behind the same software interfaces.
• Build scenario and regression suites so machine software can be developed and tested in CI without hardware in the loop.
• Extend simulation coverage across machine types so more of the software stack can be exercised without physical machines.
• Build validation tooling that compares simulation behavior with real-machine telemetry, and determine whether divergences result from software bugs or model-fidelity gaps.
• Grow toward owning a well-bounded platform component, such as the device-model library or simulation harness used by CI.

Requirements

• 2+ years building software for systems that interact with hardware or the physical world. Industry experience, internships, robotics competitions, research, and serious open-source work count.
• Strong programming fundamentals and working Python experience building and debugging real systems.
• Exposure to simulation or modeling, including physics simulation, behavioral or discrete-event simulation, digital twins, or game-engine work.
• Practical understanding of state machines, concurrency, and determinism.
• A first-principles mindset and systematic debugging habits.
• Collaboration skills for investigating problems across the software and hardware boundary.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, Robotics, or equivalent experience.

Nice-to-Haves

• Working C++ experience.
• Physics-engine experience with MuJoCo, Drake, Bullet, PyBullet, or similar tools.
• Knowledge of rigid-body dynamics and contact modeling.
• Robotics experience with kinematics, dynamics, motion planning, or state estimation.
• Experience with robotics middleware, including ROS.
• Experience with gRPC, Protobuf APIs, observability tooling, or CI and test infrastructure at scale.
• Hardware-in-the-loop testing or simulation-based validation of real machines.

Compensation and Benefits

• Salary range: $160,000–$190,000 USD.
• Compensation also includes equity and benefits.