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From the employer's careers site First seen 1 Oct 2026 · Still live on 31 Oct 2026

System Software Engineer

NVIDIA Santa Clara, CA senior full-time

Salary

$124,000 - $195,500 per year

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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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