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Staff Simulation Engineer - Core Simulation Platform

Apptronik· Software Engineering
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Sunnyvale, CA$260k - $290kfull-timePosted yesterday

About the role

Staff-level engineer focused on architecture and development of the core simulation platform for AI-powered robotics, enabling fast RL training, controls validation, and CI/CD testing with high-performance, cloud-native pipelines and advanced sensor realism.

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to the architecture and development of the core simulation platform — high-performance digital twins that serve as the foundation for policy training, controls validation, and CI/CD integration testing.
  • Help build and scale cloud-native simulation pipelines capable of generating millions of experience hours per day, parallelizing physics and rendering for rapid policy iteration.
  • Improve sim-to-real transfer through advanced contact models and actuator dynamics that help policies trained in simulation transfer to physical humanoid hardware.
  • Develop sensor-realistic environments (camera, LiDAR, depth) that challenge the perception stack with dynamic and diverse worlds.
  • Ship platform improvements that visibly reduce iteration time for RL, controls, and perception teams.
  • Work with Controls, AI Research, and Perception teams to support their evolving simulation needs as the platform grows.

Qualifications

  • Excellent C++ and/or Python programming skills
  • Familiar with software development best practices: CI/CD, automated testing, and code quality standards
  • Understanding of robotics concepts: kinematics, dynamics, controls, system identification
  • Experience with modern robotic simulators (Isaac Lab, MuJoCo, or equivalent)
  • Understanding of Reinforcement Learning and VLAs, with research or production experience
  • Experience with large-scale training workloads — deploying parallel simulations on cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) with distributed computing frameworks (e.g., Ray, Kubernetes)

Skills

Required:C++PythonCI/CDRobotics conceptsRobotic simulatorsReinforcement LearningCloud platforms
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Apptronik

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Apptronik designs humanoid robotics platforms with mobility, manipulation, and human-centered interaction to support people in the workplace.

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