Staff Engineer, Autonomy Simulation Platform

📋 Description

• Develop simulation environments, aircraft dynamics, sensor models, and the orchestration layer
• Build tooling for large-scale, procedural, automated scenario generation and rendering
• Generate synthetic sensor and telemetry data for physical AI training via physics-based rendering
• Define evaluation metrics that turn simulation output into data-driven decisions
• Partner with flight test teams to keep simulated scenarios grounded in real-world conditions
• Set platform architecture and roadmap ahead of team growth

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years in simulation, robotics, or backend infrastructure
• MS./Ph.D. in Computer Science, Robotics, or related field, or equivalent (exceptional B.S.
• Experience architecting simulation or orchestration/configuration layers across a large codebase
• Experience building (tool selection, deployment, scaling) synthetic data and evaluation pipelines
• Working knowledge of AI development methods (data flywheels, eval-driven iteration)
• Comfort with ambiguity and evolving scopes

🎁 Benefits

• Bonus qualifications: Neural rendering or generative AI for synthetic data (e.g. Gaussian Splatting)
• Bonus qualifications: Integrating heterogeneous data (satellite, GIS, camera, telemetry)
• Bonus qualifications: Simulation for embodied/physical AI (aerial, ground, indoor robotics)
• Bonus qualifications: Flight dynamics / 6-DOF simulation or aerospace M&S tools (JSBSim
• Bonus qualifications: Safety-critical or regulated engineering background (aerospace, automotive