Senior Software Engineer – Simulation & ML Platform

Primary Function of Position

As a Senior Software Engineer Simulation & ML Platform you will build software platforms supporting simulation-based data generation and machine-learning development for robotic motion AI. You will work closely with Simulation Data Scientists and ML teams responsible for simulation strategy synthetic-data design action-model development sim-to-real evaluation and machine-learning experimentation. The Senior Software Engineer will translate those research and data-science requirements into reliable scalable and extendible software systems.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain software infrastructure for robotic simulations & ML using NVIDIA Isaac Sim Isaac Lab MuJoCo or custom simulation environments.

• Architect scalable pipelines for generating synthetic and procedurally varied robotic interaction data including development of APIs configuration systems command-line tools and SDKs for defining and launching simulation workloads.

• Build automated integration and validation pipelines for evolving simulation platforms physics engines and the NVIDIA AI ecosystem enabling rapid adoption of new releases while maintaining compatibility reproducibility and stability across the robotics simulation software stack.

• Develop AI-assisted engineering workflows for automated code refactoring maintainability analysis architectural consistency and CI/CD optimization enabling readable modular and sustainable codebases while improving engineering productivity across large-scale software projects.

• Create reusable abstractions for robot configurations tasks sensors scene assets domain randomization failure injection data capture episode termination and evaluation.

• Build tools that allow data scientists to define experiments without modifying low-level platform code. Support headless interactive local cluster and cloud-based execution.

• Develop secure GPU-enabled containerized environments for simulation data processing model inference and experimentation. Develop common interfaces for robot state coordinate frames actions trajectories control commands sensor observations timing and safety status.

• Build tools for importing physical robot logs into analysis and simulation environments. Enable software-in-the-loop hardware-in-the-loop and controlled trajectory replay where appropriate.

• Collaborate with controls embedded systems and robotics engineers to manage differences between simulated and physical interfaces.

• Establish standards for software development testing documentation code review release management and operational ownership.

Qualifications :

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in computer science software engineering computer engineering robotics or a related field or equivalent practical experience.

• 5 years of industry experience developing software for simulation machine learning robotics computer vision or autonomous-systems. Experience with high-volume image video time-series or scientific data and formats such as Parquet Zarr or HDF5.

• Strong proficiency in Python and at least one additional language such as C Java or TypeScript.

• Experience building data-intensive applications or data-processing pipelines. Experience designing and operating production-quality backend or platform systems. Experience with asynchronous processing distributed workers message queues or event-driven architectures.

• Strong understanding of API design data modeling concurrency failure handling and distributed-system fundamentals.

• Experience with Docker Linux testing observability and production deployment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with NVIDIA Isaac Sim Isaac Lab MuJoCo Gazebo PhysX or another robotics simulation platform. Familiarity with USD assets and scene composition.

• Experience with coordinate transforms robot kinematics joint states trajectory representations sensor synchronization or closed-loop control.

• Experience with ROS or ROS 2 and GPU-enabled applications or infrastructure.

• Experience with Redis RabbitMQ Kafka Ray Celery Kubernetes Slurm or cloud batch systems.

• Experience building scientific engineering ML or internal developer tools.

• Experience with PyTorch JAX TensorFlow MLflow or Weights & Biases.

Additional Information :

Due to the nature of our business and the role please note that Intuitive and/or your customer(s) may require that you show current proof of vaccination against certain diseases including COVID-19.  Details can vary by role.

Intuitive is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race sex pregnancy sexual orientation gender identity national origin color age religion protected veteran or disability status genetic information or any other status protected under federal state or local applicable laws.

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time