Member of Technical Staff - Simulation Engineer

The role

This person will build simulation systems and infrastructure for robotics and embodied AI. They will develop high-fidelity environments to model robot behavior, sensors, physics, and real-world interactions.

What you will do

• Design and develop simulation environments for robotics training and evaluation
• Build simulation systems supporting perception, navigation, manipulation, and embodied AI tasks
• Develop scalable simulation workflows for robot learning
• Build reusable tooling for simulation development
• Compare simulation outputs against real-world robot behavior
• Model robot dynamics, sensors, contacts, and environmental interactions
• Tune simulation fidelity through calibration and validation
• Improve policy transfer using calibration, benchmarking, and domain randomization
• Partner with robotics and AI teams to build environments for training and evaluating systems
• Develop infrastructure supporting large-scale synthetic data generation

Required qualifications

• Experience building robotics simulation systems for robotics, autonomy, embodied AI, or physical AI
• Experience with robotics simulators such as Isaac Sim, MuJoCo, PyBullet, Gazebo, Drake, or equivalent
• Understanding of robot dynamics, physics simulation, sensor modeling, and sim-to-real transfer
• Strong software engineering skills in Python, C++, or similar languages
• Experience building production-quality simulation software and infrastructure
• Experience writing reliable, maintainable, and well-tested code
• Strong systems thinking and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work closely with robotics, machine learning, and research teams

Nice to have

• Experience with NVIDIA Isaac Sim or Omniverse
• Experience generating synthetic data for robotics or machine learning
• Experience with domain randomization or procedural environment generation
• Familiarity with ROS2 and modern robotics software stacks
• Experience optimizing simulation performance or GPU-accelerated simulation
• MS or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field

About the company

Moonlake is building interactive world models that generate, simulate, and reason over 3D environments for robotics and embodied AI. The team has raised $28M in seed funding from NVIDIA Ventures, Threshold Ventures, AIX Ventures, and notable angels.