Staff Software Engineer, Simulation

Highlights

• Founding member building core simulation stack for deployed humanoid robots.
• Use simulation to train policies, generate data and validate robot designs.
• Validate models against hardware data to close gap between sim and reality.

What they offer

• Flexible, unlimited PTO and 12 company holidays including winter shutdown
• Catered lunches four times a week and snacks at Salem and Pittsburgh
• Generous paid parental leave programs
• Professional development and tuition reimbursement
• Relocation assistance for eligible roles
• Annual discretionary bonus for eligible roles

Ideal candidate

A robotics software engineer energized by hardware interaction and founding-team ownership, who turns ambiguous simulation challenges into reliable tools and mentors others while raising the engineering bar.

Requirements

• 5+ years professional software engineering experience in robotics including simulation infrastructure, tooling or robot models
• Strong proficiency in modern C++ and Python
• Experience with at least one major robotics physics simulator (MuJoCo, Isaac Sim, Gazebo or similar)
• Experience building rigid-body robot models (URDF, MJCF, USD) including inertial, joint and actuator parameters
• Understanding of multibody dynamics and actuator modeling
• Experience with system identification and improving sim2real transfer
• Solid grasp of Git, CI/CD, feature branching and Jira or equivalent
• Comfortable working across hardware and software teams
• Able to take ambiguous problems to working solutions with minimal direction
• Experience mentoring engineers or leading technical efforts
• B.S., M.S. or Ph.D. in Robotics, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering or related field