Simulation Engineer – Cognitive Twin (human)

The role

You will enable simulation capabilities on the Cognitive Twin platform by configuring physics engines, robot models, and sensors. You will build benchmark scenes, evaluate control approaches, and manage sim-to-real transfer and interoperability.

What you will do

• Operate simulation capabilities on top of the platform's physics engine
• Build and parameterize physics scenes and headless setups
• Build standardized headless benchmark scenes and test cases
• Compare twin behavior against real-robot logs to surface sim-to-real gaps
• Build and maintain ingest and export pipelines for 3D and robot-description formats
• Own the simulation-backend side of the scene definition format
• Keep scenarios, configurations, and results versioned and documented

Required qualifications

• University degree (Bachelor's or Master's) in Robotics, Mechanical / Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mechatronics, or a related field or equivalent hands-on experience
• Several years of relevant experience in robotics simulation, benchmarking, or model-based evaluation, in research or industry
• Hands-on expertise with a modern real-time 3D / game-engine-based simulation environment and a production physics engine (e.g. PhysX)
• Confident robot / environment modeling with standard robot-description and scene-interchange formats
• Working understanding of multi-body dynamics, kinematics, and contact physics
• Strong modern C++ (C++17) and CMake, with Python for tooling
• Experience defining objective metrics and statistically evaluating simulation results
• Experience with structured experiment management and automation of simulation tests
• Experience with, or strong interest in, sim-to-real transfer
• Good understanding of real robot hardware and its limitations
• Familiarity with AI coding tools (e.g. Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot) and agentic orchestration for development
• Perfect command of English

Nice to have

• MuJoCo, NVIDIA Isaac Sim, or PyBullet
• GPU-accelerated / distributed simulation
• Actuator and sensor modeling (IMUs, LiDAR, cameras, force-torque)
• Scene-interchange format tooling
• German

About the company

NEURA Robotics builds cognitive robots and Neuraverse, a connected ecosystem where robots, skills, and developers come together.