Description
NVIDIA's Generalist Embodied Agent Research (GEAR) group is seeking a senior or principal engineer specializing in physics simulation. You will work on Project GR00T, a moonshot initiative for humanoid robots, with a team that produces influential works on multimodal foundation models, large-scale robot learning, embodied AI, and physical simulation.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain simulation environments using frameworks like MuJoCo and Isaac Lab for robotics research.
- Implement and test control algorithms and XR teleoperation interfaces for simulated robots.
- Build procedural generation pipelines for diverse environments, object layouts, and robot motions.
- Optimize GPU-based physics simulator performance for large-scale training workloads.
- Import, configure, and validate robot assets in USD format for successful sim2real transfer.
- Implement Sim2Real pipelines and deploy learned models to physical robots.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science, Robotics, Engineering, or a related field.
- 10+ years of full-time industry experience in robotics and/or physics simulation.
- Proven experience with physics simulators like MuJoCo, Isaac Sim, PyBullet, Drake, or Gazebo.
- Deep knowledge of state-of-the-art simulation techniques, including accurate contact dynamics and photorealistic rendering.
- Expertise in generating simulation assets, task definitions, and building Gym-style APIs for neural network training.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Engineering, or a related field.
- Experience at autonomous driving or humanoid robotics companies on physics simulation.
- Hands-on experience with deploying and debugging neural network models on robotic hardware.
- Expertise in reinforcement learning and neural network training.
- Demonstrated Tech Lead experience, coordinating a team of robotics engineers and driving projects from conception to deployment.
- Contributions to popular open-source simulation frameworks or research publications in top-tier conferences.
Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and other objective job-related factors. The expected base salary range for this position is 224,000 USD – 356,500 USD. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.