Senior Simulation Software Engineer (Robot Intelligence)

Location: Mountain View, California, USA. Onsite office setting.

Base pay: $163,300–$224,600 USD per year, with annual bonus eligibility.

Company

hirify.global’s Robot Intelligence Lab develops technologies for intelligent physical robots capable of manipulation, navigation, and complex reasoning in collaboration with universities, startups, government labs, and Samsung research and product organizations.

What you will do

• Develop Python, C++, and Rust components for robotics simulation, including asset conversion and management, simulation harnesses, cloud deployment, telemetry, replay, evaluations, and comprehensive testing.
• Own software components from concept and prototype through general internal availability.
• Profile and optimize code to improve simulation latency and throughput.
• Collaborate with researchers and research engineers on robotics algorithms across manipulation, locomotion, and VLA applications.
• Contribute to the Robot Intelligence Lab engineering roadmap and maintain release workflows and regular release cadence for partner teams.
• Support reproducible AI development environments and cloud-based training workflows.

Requirements

• MS degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or robotics, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• 5+ years of experience conducting state-of-the-art robotics R&D.
• Proficiency in Python and C++, with experience developing and maintaining Linux-based software.
• Experience with robotics simulation frameworks such as IsaacSim, Gazebo, PyBullet, or MuJoCo.
• Familiarity with scene description formats including URDF, SDFormat, or USD.
• Experience designing software components and defining clear interfaces within complex systems.
• Experience developing or integrating with cloud-hosted services and data pipelines.
• Practical experience with Docker, Git, CI/CD, and automated testing.
• Ability to establish maintainable engineering practices while supporting fast-moving research, along with strong troubleshooting, collaboration, and documentation skills.

Nice to have

• Experience developing robotic manipulation or locomotion simulation environments, tasks, controllers, or policies.
• Experience training or fine-tuning neural-network robot policies in PyTorch, IsaacLab, or MJLab.
• Experience developing physics or 3D rendering components for simulators.
• Experience developing CUDA or Warp software components and profiling and optimizing GPU kernels.
• Experience deploying services on Amazon Web Services.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaboration with universities, startups, government labs, and Samsung research and product teams.
• Comprehensive compensation package with annual bonus eligibility.
• Generous benefits designed to support employees’ well-being.
• Inclusive workplace and equal employment opportunity for qualified individuals.
• Reasonable accommodation is available for individuals with disabilities during the employment selection process.