# System Software Engineer

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Location**: Santa Clara, CA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $124,000 - $195,500 per year
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a System Software Engineer for our Robotics Simulation Team to work on NVIDIA Isaac Sim, a cutting-edge robotics simulation platform that leverages AI and GPU technologies to accelerate the development and deployment of intelligent robots.

**Responsibilities:**

- Building and integrating tools to configure, simulate, and test robots

- Maintaining and optimizing the existing simulation stack for scalable robot and sensor simulation

- Integrating APIs to support large-scale simulator deployments on distributed systems

- Developing microservices using ZMQ, DDS, RPC, RESTful, and other network-level communication APIs

**Requirements:**

- BS, MS, PhD (or equivalent experience) in Computer Science, Simulation, or a related field

- 2+ years of relevant experience in systems software engineering

- Excellent C, C++, and Python programming skills

- Flexibility to adapt quickly to varying roles and responsibilities

- Experience with physics simulation, robotics, or motion planning and controls

- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work optimally with multi-functional teams, principles, and architects across organizational boundaries and geographies

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Experience with Isaac Sim, Omniverse, USD, MJCF, URDF, CAD formats

- Background with physical robots, reinforcement learning, synthetic data generation

- Experience with UI/UX for user and developer-facing tools

- Background with shipping and supporting software products

- Experience with system-level optimization using multi-threading, asynchronous programming, concurrency, and parallelism

The base salary range for this position is $124,000 - $195,500 per year, depending on location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

## Skills

### Required
- C
- C++
- Python
- systems software engineering
- physics simulation
- robotics
- motion planning
- controls

### Nice to have
- Isaac Sim
- Omniverse
- USD
- MJCF
- URDF
- CAD formats
- reinforcement learning
- synthetic data generation
- UI/UX
- system-level optimization

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