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Senior SDE, Simulation Runtime and Physics Integration

Amazon· Software Development
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Hybrid (N.Reading)$168.1k - $227.4kFull-timePosted yesterday

About the role

Senior Software Development Engineer responsible for the core simulation runtime and physics-engine integration for advanced robotics at Amazon. Focus on high-performance, production-grade simulation software, integrating modern physics engines, optimizing dynamics, and reducing the simulation-to-reality gap in collaboration with scientists and controls teams.

Responsibilities

  • Own the core simulation runtime: integrate, extend, and optimize modern physics engines (e.g., Isaac Lab, MuJoCo, Drake, Newton) for production use
  • Engineer high-performance solvers and pipelines for rigid and deformable body dynamics and contact-rich manipulation and locomotion
  • Partner with applied scientists to productionize novel simulation methods into robust, maintainable, reusable software
  • Optimize simulation performance across CPU/GPU, including profiling, parallelization, and GPU-accelerated compute
  • Build and maintain the interfaces, APIs, and model pipelines (e.g., URDF, SDF, USD) that connect simulation to the broader robotics stack
  • Develop systematic methods and tooling to measure and reduce the simulation-to-reality gap in collaboration with science and controls teams
  • Establish engineering best practices for the simulation codebase — modular architecture, performance-critical C++/Python, testing, and long-term maintainability
  • Support large-scale reinforcement learning and policy-training workloads with reliable, reproducible simulation behavior

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
  • 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
  • 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
  • Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

Skills

Required:Core programmingPhysics engines
Nice to have:Robotics model formatsGPU-accelerated computing

Benefits

  • Base salary with sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs)
  • Comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D with optional Supplemental), EAP, Mental Health Support, FSA, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement
  • 401(k) matching
  • Paid time off
  • Parental leave
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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