# Senior Manager, AlpaSim and AlpaDreams Production

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Location**: Santa Clara
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Transforming simulations due to AI, handcrafted game-engine simulators are being replaced by neural simulations, involving data-driven scene reconstruction and AI-generated environments. We are seeking an engineering leader to productize these outstanding technologies. You will build a team and transform innovative research in neural rendering, simulation, and learning into a durable, modular, production-level platform. This position connects research and production , requiring deep technical expertise to evaluate research and practical skill to deliver a world-class platform.

**Responsibilities:**

- Establish AlpaSim and AlpaDreams as the open-source standard for neural simulation in AV, and scale the team and community to get there.

- Integrate the most recent findings in neural rendering, simulation, and learning into a modular architecture that allows for quick investigation of this field.

- Own product and engineering excellence , performance, scalability, reliability, developer experience, CI/CD, release management.

- Partner with research teams to translate breakthroughs into production-ready platform capabilities.

- Lead the research-to-production pipeline: transform delicate prototypes into reliable tools that developers can rely on.

**Requirements:**

- Demonstrated record of meaningful achievements in the Graphics, Simulation, Robotics, Machine Learning, or AV fields.

- 12+ overall years experience, 5+ years leading teams.

- Bachelors degree or equivalent experience.

- Demonstrated experience turning research-stage systems into dependable, scalable products.

- Strong understanding of ML frameworks, distributed systems, and production infrastructure.

- Results-focused leadership , you build the process, hit the dates, and hold the quality bar.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Direct experience with AV simulation platforms like CARLA, Applied Intuition, dSPACE, or internal OEM tools is a huge plus.

- Experience across the AV ecosystem , OEMs, Tier-1s, startups, research labs , and understanding what they actually need from a simulation platform.

- Previous work on neural rendering, differentiable simulation, or generative world models.

- Experience building developer ecosystems or research communities around open-source projects.

- Eligible for equity and benefits.

## Skills

### Required
- neural rendering
- simulation
- machine learning
- distributed systems
- production infrastructure
- research-stage systems
- scalable products

### Nice to have
- AV simulation platforms
- differentiable simulation
- generative world models
- developer ecosystems
- research communities
- open-source projects

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