# Robotics Research Engineer - Robot Simulation and Evaluation

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Location**: Santa Clara, CA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

In the NVIDIA Isaac team, we build tools that bring the power of the GPU to bear on one of today’s grand challenges: physical AI. We’re looking for a research engineer to join our team to develop simulation tools built for scientists and companies that are using machine learning to solve the future of robotics.

You will drive cross-team collaboration between Isaac product engineering and NVIDIA Robotics research: translating research ideas into product-ready Isaac Lab Arena capabilities, bringing product and user feedback back into the research loop, and driving adoption with research users. You'll join a team of robotics engineers who work at the intersection of simulation and machine learning. Our goal is to build the industry's leading tool for evaluating robot foundation models in simulation.

**Responsibilities:**

- Building simulation frameworks for training and evaluating robot foundation models on top of NVIDIA's Omniverse platform.

- Partner directly with research to design, implement, and evaluate novel algorithms for robot learning.

- Driving technical architecture, setting evaluation standards, and cross-team leadership between Research and Product.

- Working as part of a high-paced software engineering team: design/code reviews, testing, continuous integration, deployment.

- Training and evaluating robot foundation models.

- Integrating modern LLM and agentic workflows into simulation and robotics workflows.

- Working with researchers and product engineers to translate research ideas into Isaac Lab Arena capabilities that can scale to NVIDIA's user base.

- Keeping up to date with the state-of-the-art in robotics research.

**Requirements:**

- PhD degree in Computer Science, Robotics, or a related field (or equivalent experience).

- 8+ years of relevant industry or post-degree research engineering experience in robotics, simulation, or robot learning, with ability to translate research prototypes into product or platform capabilities.

- Proven track record of software design and translating research prototypes into production-ready software platforms.

- Proficiency using Python and development experience with deep learning software stacks (Pytorch, Jax, etc.).

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- High-impact publications at top robotics and machine learning venues (e.g., CoRL, RSS, ICRA, NeurIPS).

- Robot learning expertise with reinforcement learning and/or imitation learning,

- Deep expertise in GPU-accelerated physics simulation engines (e.g., PhysX, Isaac Gym/Isaac Lab, Newton).

- Experience with NVIDIA robotics ecosystem tools (CUDA, warp, Isaac Lab, ROS).

- Developing and maintaining open-source projects.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- deep learning
- robotics
- simulation
- machine learning

### Nice to have
- reinforcement learning
- imitation learning
- GPU-accelerated physics simulation
- NVIDIA robotics ecosystem
- open-source projects

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