General Motors is hiring a Robotic Simulation Engineer

General Motors is seeking a Senior Robotic Simulation Engineer with deep expertise in building high-fidelity simulation environments and synthetic data pipelines using platforms like NVIDIA Isaac Sim. You will contribute directly to the development of scalable, realistic virtual worlds that power the training and validation of robotic foundation models for perception, planning, and manipulation.

What You'll Do

• Build and customize simulation scenes in Isaac Sim that accurately reflect real-world robotic tasks and factory layouts
• Develop synthetic data generation pipelines, including randomized object placement, sensor simulation, and multi-modal annotations
• Implement and maintain data processing workflows, ensuring data quality, traceability, and compatibility with ML training pipelines
• Optimize simulation performance and realism, tuning physics parameters, asset fidelity, and rendering configurations for scalable experimentation
• Collaborate with robotics engineers and ML scientists to align simulation outputs with model requirements and support sim2real transfer
• Conduct hands-on testing and debugging, iterating on simulation setups and synthetic data strategies to improve model robustness
• Document workflows and contribute to best practices, enabling reproducibility and knowledge sharing across teams

What We're Looking For

• Bachelors, MSc or PhD in Robotics, Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, or a related field
• 1+ years of hands-on experience in robotics simulation, synthetic data generation, or virtual environment development
• Proficiency with Isaac Sim, Omniverse, or similar simulation platforms
• Strong programming skills in Python and C++, with experience in simulation APIs and data annotation tools
• Familiarity with 3D vision, sensor modeling, and domain randomization techniques
• Experience integrating simulation outputs into ML pipelines for training and evaluation

Nice to Have

• Experience with robotics frameworks like ROS/ROS2, MoveIt, or Nav2
• Experience with robotics simulation platforms like IsaacSim, MoJoCo, Gazebo or game engines like Unreal or Unity
• Background in industrial automation, autonomous vehicles, or robotic manipulation
• Publications or contributions in simulation, synthetic data, or robotics venues
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and modern software development practices such as Bash, Github, Bazel, and Docker

Technical Stack

• Simulation: NVIDIA Isaac Sim, Omniverse, MoJoCo, Gazebo, Unreal, Unity
• Languages: Python, C++
• Frameworks: ROS/ROS2, MoveIt, Nav2
• Tools: Bash, Github, Bazel, Docker

Team & Environment

You will join the Manufacturing Technology Development (MTD) team at General Motors.

Work Mode

This is an onsite position. You will be based at either the General Motors Global Technical Center in Warren, MI, or the General Motors MountainView office in CA.

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