Simulation Team Lead

CET +/- 3, Remote. Posted 5 months ago

The role

You will build and lead a multidisciplinary Simulation team to deliver simulation foundations for AI training and robot behavior. You will set the direction for digital replicas, synthetic data generation, and sim-based validation infrastructure.

What you will do

Build, lead, and mentor a multidisciplinary Simulation team.
Own hiring, performance management, and career development.
Set and maintain production-level quality standards for simulations.
Partner with Simulation Tech Leads on technical direction.
Contribute to PRDs and technical design documents.
Drive the Simulation team's roadmap and define commitments.
Run the day-to-day operational cadence including reviews, standups, and retrospectives.

Required qualifications

Proven track record leading multidisciplinary teams in simulation, robotics, or graphics/games engineering.
Strong people-leadership instincts.
Technical expertise in robotics and physics-based simulation.
Strong software engineering fundamentals in Python.
Production-level engineering experience architecting and delivering robust, scalable systems.
Hands-on experience with simulation platforms such as NVIDIA Isaac Sim / Isaac Lab, PhysX, MuJoCo, Gazebo, or similar.
Experience with OpenUSD scene building.
Experience owning team delivery for systems that run in production with real customers.
Product-oriented mindset.
Ability to communicate complex architectural decisions across multidisciplinary and international teams.

Nice to have

Experience designing and operating large-scale GPU compute and rendering infrastructure.
Hands-on experience modelling robotic systems including kinematics, dynamics, contacts, and sensors.
Integrating robotic systems with ROS2.
Experience with industrial and collaborative robotics.
Background in reinforcement learning environments or behaviour learning at scale.
Experience deploying simulation as part of a virtual commissioning, digital twin, or FAT/SAT workflow.
Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, AWS / GCP, and GPU cluster orchestration.

About the company

Sunrise Robotics is dedicated to augmenting humanity through intelligent robotics. They aim to elevate manufacturing by introducing intelligent, flexible robots.