# Software Engineer (C++) — Core/Game Engine

All open roles Software Engineer (C++) - Core/Game Engine Full-time · Melbourne, Australia Apply for this role About the role Lucky Robots is building the world’s first "Game Engine for Robotics" - a real-time 3D simulation and training platform where AI learns to move, manipulate, and understand the physical world. Our goal is to make large-scale robot training and testing environments accessible and fast. We move quickly, experiment often, and value people who enjoy solving complex problems in a fast-paced, collaborative startup environment where ideas become reality fast. If we’re being honest, we’re looking for someone who truly lives and breathes game engine development, someone ready to push beyond games and tackle everything from physics to rendering. The kind of person who thinks in data, asking, "if this robot in the sim were plugged into a computer with a USB cable, would the output be identical?" and then makes it identical. As an early engineer on this team, you’ll have the chance to shape the core architecture and design systems of the engine itself. We’re looking for an experienced C++ Software Engineer to join our Core Technology team, working on the foundational sys

- **Id**: 1323393
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/lucky-robots-software-engineer-c-coregame-engine>
- **Role**: Games
- **Role family**: Games
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Melbourne, Australia
- **Countries**: AU
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-05-01T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-05-01
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T09:59:44Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 196
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3093
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Metaverse

## Company

- **Id**: 3782288
- **Name**: Lucky Robots
- **Domain**: luckyrobots.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/luckyrobots>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Schema

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 75
- **Open postings**: 6
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 62000
- **Max usd**: 175000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: global_role_cell_scaled_by_country
- **Sample n**: 117

## Technologies

- **C#** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Unity** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: stale
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale
- **Days open**: 196

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-27T00:07:30Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 6
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.227
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 195
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:26, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

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