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Senior Robotics Software Engineer, Simulation & Evaluation

FieldAI· Engineering – Simulation
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Hybrid (Irvine, CA)$155k - $180kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Senior Robotics Software Engineer in Irvine, CA focused on building and refining FieldAI’s internal robotics simulation tools for autonomy development, debugging, and evaluation. Role emphasizes maintaining and extending simulation systems, improving fidelity, and turning real-world robot behavior into reproducible simulation scenarios for field deployments.

Responsibilities

  • Maintain, refactor, and improve internal robotics simulation tools and infrastructure.
  • Improve simulation fidelity for autonomy evaluation, including robot behavior, sensor modeling, timing, terrain interaction, and environment representation.
  • Build workflows for scenario execution, log replay, regression testing, metrics, and visualization.
  • Develop real-to-sim workflows that turn field logs, reconstructed environments, and failure cases into reproducible simulation scenarios.
  • Work with autonomy and field teams to identify and debug gaps between simulated and real robot behavior.
  • Improve developer workflows around simulation performance, reproducibility, debugging, and test automation.
  • Contribute to the long-term simulation strategy for legged robots and humanoids operating in complex real-world environments.

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience developing robotics simulation tools, simulation infrastructure, autonomy evaluation systems, or related robotics software.
  • Strong software engineering skills in C++ and/or Python.
  • Experience with simulation platforms such as Isaac Sim, Gazebo, MuJoCo, Unity, Unreal, or custom robotics simulators.
  • Familiarity with ROS2 or similar robotics middleware, including sensors, transforms, logs, and timing.
  • Experience with robot or simulation assets such as URDF, SDF, meshes, dynamics, or sensor models.
  • Ability to debug simulator-to-robot gaps across sensing, timing, dynamics, and autonomy behavior.
  • Comfortable working across research code, production robotics software, simulation infrastructure, and real-world robot deployment workflows.

Skills

Required:Robotics simulation developmentC++PythonSimulation platformsROS2Robot/sensor assets

Benefits

  • $155,000 - $180,000 a year
  • Base pay may vary based on role scope, job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and the Irvine, California market.
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About FieldAI

Robot intelligence built for the real-world.

FieldAI is the leader in deploying general-purpose robots in unstructured environments, providing a universal brain that works across many robots, and many tasks.

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