Simulation Engineer - Manipulation

📋 Description

• Design and implement gym environments for manipulation tasks across industry, service, and home.
• Define observation spaces, action spaces, and reward functions.
• Address reward hacking and iteratively improve reward design.
• Reduce sim-to-real gap by tuning physics and validating against real data.
• Integrate high-quality 3D assets from vendors for physics-based simulation.
• Maximize training throughput by reducing simulation bottlenecks.

🎯 Requirements

• 3+ years building simulation environments or game engines.
• Experience with physics simulators (Isaac Sim/IsaacLab, MuJoCo, PyBullet) or Unreal/Unity.
• Experience running large-scale parallel simulation on GPU clusters.
• Strong Python; profile bottlenecks, debug physics, and write maintainable code.
• Familiarity with modern software engineering practices.
• Document experiments clearly and communicate trade-offs.
• Nice-to-have robotics/manipulation experience.

🎁 Benefits

• Competitive equity: stock options with meaningful upside as we scale.
• 30+ paid days off, including 23 days of annual leave, UK holidays, and shutdowns.
• Private healthcare, including virtual and in-person care.
• Pension scheme with 8% total contribution.
• Free daily breakfast, catered lunch, and snacks in-office.
• Collaborate with world-class engineers and influence product direction.