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Senior Asset Pipeline Engineer - Sensor Platform

Applied Intuition· Dana for Physical AI
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Sunnyvale$151k - $230kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Senior Asset Pipeline Engineer responsible for designing and owning the OpenUSD-based asset pipeline for a large, versioned 3D asset library, including schema design, automated pipelines, validation, material conversion, metadata strategy, and production-grade deployment.

Responsibilities

  • Design the OpenUSD schema and composition strategy — references, variants, payloads, custom schemas — for a large, versioned 3D asset library that must scale across authoring tools and simulation engines
  • Build and own automated pipelines that move assets between DCC tools and real-time/simulation engines, removing manual hand-offs
  • Define automated validation gates that catch asset-integrity and fidelity issues in CI, before they reach production
  • Solve material conversion for simulation: translate complex authored materials into USD-native representations (UsdShade, and MDL where needed) while preserving physical fidelity for sensor simulation
  • Design the asset metadata strategy that powers discovery, semantic labeling, and downstream tooling
  • Take the pipeline from design through production — observability, reliability, and a smooth experience for the content authors who depend on it

Qualifications

  • Deep, practical OpenUSD composition expertise — references, variants, payloads, inherits, specializes — designing and debugging composition stacks, not just consuming USD files
  • 3+ Years experience authoring and validating custom USD schemas (API and applied schemas)
  • Strong UsdShade material expertise: authoring, validating, and converting complex material networks
  • Built and owned automated DCC-to-engine pipelines in production — version-controlled Python that runs in CI, with real downstream users (not prototypes or research)
  • Managed USD at library scale: versioning, identifier and namespace conventions, and validation across thousands of assets
  • At minimum, a Bachelors degree in STEM or a related field.

Skills

Required:OpenUSD compositionUSD schemasUsdShadeDCC-to-engine pipelines
Last updated Oct 11, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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