Senior Simulation Engineer - Scan2Sim and Asset Library

Strong proficiency in Python and modern C++

Hands-on experience with a 3D content pipeline (Blender, Maya, Houdini, or equivalent)

Working knowledge of modern scene description and physics-asset formats (OpenUSD, URDF, MJCF) and the geometric/inertial subtleties that make or break sim-to-real transfer

Experience with at least one major physics simulator

Experience with neural reconstruction (Gaussian splatting, NeRF), photogrammetry, or 3D capture pipelines

5+ years of experience in software engineering, robotics simulation, 3D pipelines, or related fields

Apollo doesn’t get to do useful work until we can simulate every environment we want to deploy it in — and that pipeline is yours to build.

As Senior Simulation Engineer for Scan2Sim & Asset Library, you’ll own the path from real-world site walkthroughs and object captures to high-fidelity simulation scenes, applying expertise in 3D content pipelines, scene description formats, and physics-asset modeling to scale Apollo into new factories, warehouses, and homes.

Ship an end-to-end environment capture pipeline that turns real-world site walkthroughs into high-fidelity simulation scenes, with collision proxy geometry that keeps depth sensors and LiDAR behaving correctly.

Build a manipulable-object asset pipeline that turns customer parts, tools, and household objects into curated simulation assets with grounded mass, inertia, and friction properties.

Define and operate the asset ingestion path into our managed asset store, including authoring tools, validation, versioning, and metadata schemas for scenes and objects.

Drive physical fidelity of scene and object assets — collision geometry, contact properties, and material parameters — in close partnership with the Simulation Infrastructure team.