Member of Technical Staff: Engineer, Simulation Content Authoring
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Sep 25, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 1, 2026.
At Walden Robotics, we envision a world where general-purpose robots dramatically improve the quality of life for all people-supporting us at home, at work, in factories, on farms, and beyond. To accomplish this, we are building a team of exceptional professionals who combine world-class technical skills with creative vision, grounded in humility and collaboration.
Position Summary:
We’re looking for a motivated, hands-on engineer to build simulation content pipelines that create rich, diverse, and useful environments for evaluating and improving robot policies. You’ll design production-quality systems for generating, managing, validating, and deploying scenes, assets, and scenarios at scale. As a Member of Technical Staff, you’ll own substantial parts of the simulation-content authoring stack and ensure they integrate cleanly with the broader simulation platform.
Core Responsibilities:
- Design and build scalable systems for authoring simulation scenes, assets, and evaluation scenarios.
- Define simulation tasks and scenarios that reflect real robotics priorities and expose policy weaknesses.
- Develop workflows that make simulation content composable, editable, reproducible, and easy to deploy.
- Build generation and curation pipelines that combine procedural methods, asset libraries, human input, and agentic workflows.
- Create validation and quality-control systems for geometry, physical properties, articulation, scene composition, and task relevance.
Required Qualifications:
- 2+ years of relevant experience
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience designing, building, and maintaining substantial software systems.
- Experience building simulation-ready 3D assets, with strong judgment about visual and collision geometry, including trade-offs among fidelity, physical accuracy, and runtime performance.
- Up-to-date knowledge of advances in simulation-ready asset and scene generation, with the ability to evaluate state-of-the-art methods and apply them pragmatically.
- Ability to own ambiguous problem areas from initial design through production deployment.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Familiarity with agentic systems and LLM-driven developer tooling.
- Experience with robotics simulation, robot learning, and automated policy evaluation.
- Familiarity with simulation platforms such as Isaac Sim, MuJoCo, or Drake.
Walden Robotics offers a competitive total compensation program, including salary, annual cash bonus, company equity, company-subsidized insurance programs, 401(k) with company match, flexible PTO, daily lunch, and other benefits. The pay ranges noted on our posts are for salary only.
Walden Robotics is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to [email protected].
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