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As a Senior Member of Technical Staff in Microsoft Robotics, you will lead the design and optimization of high-fidelity physics-based simulation frameworks that support robotics development, testing, and AI training. Your daily tasks include developing accurate sensor models, actuator interfaces, and communication protocols to mirror real robot hardware behavior, while also creating sim-to-real workflows for dynamic environments and robotics tasks. You will work with 3D content pipelines, develop robust autonomy test infrastructure, and integrate reinforcement learning training at scale using distributed ML frameworks. Key technologies involve MuJoCo, Isaac Sim, Gazebo, Unity, Unreal Engine, Python, C++, and ML frameworks like PyTorch or TensorFlow. This role requires extensive experience in physics simulation engineering, robotics simulation platforms, 3D graphics, and sim-to-real transfer pipelines to bridge advanced physics simulation with large-scale ML infrastructure for physically grounded AI development.
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