Senior Asset Pipeline Engineer - Sensor Platform

The role

You will design and own an OpenUSD-based asset pipeline for a 3D simulation library. You will work at the intersection of pipeline engineering, OpenUSD architecture, and simulation infrastructure.

What you will do

• Design the OpenUSD schema and composition strategy for a large 3D asset library
• Build and own automated pipelines that move assets between DCC tools and simulation engines
• Define automated validation gates in CI to catch asset-integrity and fidelity issues
• Solve material conversion for simulation by translating materials into USD-native representations
• Design the asset metadata strategy for discovery and semantic labeling
• Take the pipeline from design through production including observability and reliability

Required qualifications

• Deep, practical OpenUSD composition expertise
• 3+ Years experience authoring and validating custom USD schemas
• Strong UsdShade material expertise
• Built and owned automated DCC-to-engine pipelines in production using version-controlled Python
• Managed USD at library scale including versioning and validation across thousands of assets
• Bachelors degree in STEM or a related field

Nice to have

• NVIDIA Omniverse / Isaac Sim: Kit extensions (Python or C++), USD ingest, and Replicator / synthetic-data-generation pipelines
• Houdini LOPs: native USD authoring and procedural scene graphs
• MDL (Material Definition Language)
• Sensor simulation domain knowledge
• Automotive, defense, or robotics simulation experience
• ROS 2 / scene assembly

About the company

Applied Intuition, Inc. is a Silicon Valley company creating digital infrastructure for physical AI. It services the automotive, defense, trucking, construction, mining and agriculture industries.