Staff Simulation Architect - Core Simulation Platform

Highlights

• Own the core simulation platform behind Apollo humanoid robot policies.
• Build cloud pipelines generating millions of experience hours per day.
• Cut iteration time for RL, controls and perception teams at scale.

Ideal candidate

A seasoned systems architect who thrives on high-performance distributed challenges and learns new domains fast. You love defining extensible platforms and mentoring senior engineers to accelerate robotics teams.

Requirements

• Excellent C++ and/or Python programming skills applied to large-scale system architecture
• Deep experience architecting distributed, high-throughput or real-time software systems
• Proven experience architecting workloads on cloud platforms with distributed computing frameworks
• Deep familiarity with CI/CD, automated testing and code quality standards
• Track record of making and defending architectural trade-offs to engineers and leadership
• Comfort ramping quickly in new domains and partnering with physics, robotics and ML experts
• Understanding of robotics, modern simulators or Reinforcement Learning
• Bachelor's, Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering or related field or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of software engineering experience including architecture or technical leadership