Member of Technical Staff Engineer, Simulation Content Authoring
San Francisco, CA - USA
Job Summary
Position Summary:
Were looking for a motivated hands-on engineer to build simulation content pipelines that create rich diverse and useful environments for evaluating and improving robot policies. Youll design production-quality systems for generating managing validating and deploying scenes assets and scenarios at scale. As a Member of Technical Staff youll own substantial parts of the simulation-content authoring stack and ensure they integrate cleanly with the broader simulation platform.
Core Responsibilities:
- Design and build scalable systems for authoring simulation scenes assets and evaluation scenarios.
- Define simulation tasks and scenarios that reflect real robotics priorities and expose policy weaknesses.
- Develop workflows that make simulation content composable editable reproducible and easy to deploy.
- Build generation and curation pipelines that combine procedural methods asset libraries human input and agentic workflows.
- Create validation and quality-control systems for geometry physical properties articulation scene composition and task relevance.
Required Qualifications:
- 2 years of relevant experience
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience designing building and maintaining substantial software systems.
- Experience building simulation-ready 3D assets with strong judgment about visual and collision geometry including trade-offs among fidelity physical accuracy and runtime performance.
- Up-to-date knowledge of advances in simulation-ready asset and scene generation with the ability to evaluate state-of-the-art methods and apply them pragmatically.
- Ability to own ambiguous problem areas from initial design through production deployment.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Familiarity with agentic systems and LLM-driven developer tooling.
- Experience with robotics simulation robot learning and automated policy evaluation.
- Familiarity with simulation platforms such as Isaac Sim MuJoCo or Drake.
Walden Robotics offers a competitive total compensation program including salary annual cash bonus company equity company-subsidized insurance programs 401(k) with company match flexible PTO daily lunch and other benefits. The pay ranges noted on our posts are for salary only.
Walden Robotics is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age ancestry color family or medical care leave gender identity or expression genetic information marital status medical condition national origin physical or mental disability political affiliation protected veteran status race religion sex (including pregnancy) sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process please send a request to .
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Required Experience:
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About Company
At Walden Robotics, we envision a world where general-purpose robots dramatically improve the quality of life for all peopleāsupporting us at home, at work, in factories, on farms, and beyond. To accomplish this, we are building a team of exceptional professionals who combine world-cl ... View more