Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft Robotics (Robotics Simulation) | Microsoft Careers

What you'll do

• Design automated pipelines to convert reality capture data into high-fidelity 3D assets with accurate physics properties.
• Develop toolchains for mesh optimization, UV unwrapping, PBR material assignment, and generation of collision hulls.
• Integrate reality capture hardware/software workflows with simulation platform’s asset ingestion pipeline.
• Build rapid creation workflows for simulation environments from real-world facility scans.
• Create synthetic data generation pipelines using high-fidelity 3D assets for training models.
• Implement quality assurance workflows for mesh integrity, physics parameter consistency, and rendering fidelity.
• Remain current in 3D reconstruction, neural rendering research, and evaluate new techniques for platform integration.

What we're looking for

• Experience with 3D reconstruction pipelines, photogrammetry, LiDAR processing, and neural scene representation methods.
• Proficiency in 3D content creation tools such as Blender, Fusion, Maya, Houdini, MeshLab, or Open3D.
• Expertise in USD/OpenUSD, OBJ, STL formats and their integration with simulation engines.
• Background in physically based rendering (PBR), material authoring, and real-time graphics pipeline development.
• Experience building synthetic data generation pipelines for training computer vision models.
• Familiarity with robotics simulation platforms like Isaac Sim, Gazebo, or MuJoCo and their asset requirements.
• Understanding of physics parameter estimation, collision geometry optimization, and articulated object modeling.