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SDE - Robotics and Physics Simulation, Frontier AI Robotics

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Location 📍 San Francisco, United States
Posted 📅 April 12, 2026
Work Type ⏰ full-time

Position Overview

In this role, you will act as the primary specialist for physics engine internals and dynamics, developing high-fidelity, vectorized simulation environments for robotics locomotion, navigation, and interaction/manipulation. You will collaborate with hardware engineers to validate robot models and partner with research scientists to ensure numerical stability and physical accuracy for Sim2Real transfer. Your work focuses on tuning solvers, optimizing collision dynamics, and performing system identification to enable the training of robust robot control policies for complex, physical interactions.

Key job responsibilities
* Develop and maintain the shared simulation software framework, specifically owning the physics integration, robot state management, and control layers
* Develop and optimize parallelized (vectorized) physics environments for high-throughput reinforcement learning (e.g., Isaac Lab, MuJoCo)
* Tune physics engine parameters (solvers, friction, restit...

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Job Details

Employment Type
full-time
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Category
Engineers
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Work Arrangement
On-site
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Location
San Francisco, United States