Robotics Software Engineer - Robot Simulation and Benchmarking

Overview

In the NVIDIA Isaac team, we build tools that bring the power of the GPU to bear on one of today’s grand challenges: physical AI. Doing what’s never been done before takes vision, innovation, and the world’s best talent. As an NVIDIAN, you’ll be immersed in a diverse, encouraging environment where we all work together to advance the frontiers of accelerated computing.

• Building simulation frameworks for training and evaluating robot foundation models on top of NVIDIA's Omniverse platform.
• Working as part of a high‑paced software engineering team; design/code reviews, testing, continuous integration, deployment.
• Training and evaluating robot foundation models.
• Integrating modern LLM and agentic workflows into simulation and robotics workflows.
• Working with researchers to translate ideas from research into products that can scale to NVIDIA's user base.
• Keeping up to date with the state‑of‑the‑art in robotics research.

• MS or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 5+ years of full‑time experience in robotics and/or simulation.
• Experience in software design and working on a significant software project.
• Proficiency using Python and development experience with deep learning software stacks (Pytorch, Jax, etc.).

• Publications and/or projects that demonstrate excellence in moving the needle in the field of robotics.
• Robot learning expertise with reinforcement learning and/or imitation learning.
• Physics simulation expertise.
• Experience with tools used in the NVIDIA robotics ecosystem (CUDA, warp, Isaac Lab, ROS).
• Developing and maintaining open‑source projects.

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 152,000 USD - 241,500 USD. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until July 6, 2026.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.