System Software Engineer, Robotics Simulation

Nvidia

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On-site
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Salary
$124,000–$195,500 / yr
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Full-time
Posted
4 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Below market

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Nvidia is a leading designer of graphics processing units (GPUs) and system-on-chip units, powering gaming, professional visualization, data centers, and artificial intelligence workloads. Industry: Semiconductors & AI Computing

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TL;DR · System Software Engineer, Robotics Simulation

The System Software Engineer - Robotics Simulation joins the Robotics Simulation Team to develop tools for configuring, simulating, and testing robots within the Isaac Sim platform. This role involves maintaining and optimizing the existing simulation stack for scalable robot and sensor simulations while integrating APIs to support large-scale simulator deployments on distributed systems. The engineer will build microservices using ZMQ, DDS, RPC, and RESTful network communication APIs. Key technical requirements include proficiency in C, C++, and Python, alongside experience with physics simulation, robotics, or motion planning and controls. Candidates may also leverage knowledge of USD, MJCF, URDF, CAD formats, multi-threading, asynchronous programming, concurrency, and parallelism. The work focuses on creating a realistic and scalable environment for training, validating, and optimizing intelligent robots for real-world scenarios using advanced AI and GPU technologies.

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