Senior Robotics Simulation Engineer

About the role:

We seek a Senior/Staff Simulation Engineer to build and own the simulation platform for the entire robotics software stack. This simulation system must accurately model our structured-grid robots, distributed control, and coordinated multi-axis motion while remaining easy to use.

You will design core frameworks, tools, and models to enable rapid testing of firmware, controls, planning, and full robot behaviors. You will establish the architecture, integrate simulation with developer workflows and CI systems, and accelerate prototyping and validation. This is a high-impact senior technical role.

This role is fundamentally about building a scalable simulation platform and developer-facing tools. You’ll focus on creating reliable abstractions, workflows, and frameworks that help engineers ship faster across the entire robotics stack.

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement the core simulation platform, including robot mobility, multi-axis motion, and subsystem behaviors.
• Integrate our robotics software with simulation environments, spanning build systems, libraries, and large-scale codebases.
• Develop lightweight, functional models for distributed microcontrollers, communication interfaces, and timing, with a focus on enabling practical system-level testing.
• Build and deliver simulation tools as reliable products for developers and CI/CD, supporting uses from rapid prototyping workflows to headless regression testing.
• Create reusable infrastructure for subsystem and full-robot testing, including hybrid configurations that combine HIL and SIL components.
• Collaborate closely with robotics, firmware, controls, and planning teams to ensure simulation reflects real-world system behavior.
• Define best practices, extensibility patterns, and integration workflows that make the simulation environment easy to adopt and evolve.
• Evaluate simulation technologies and steer long-term technical direction.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience building simulation systems for robotics or complex embedded platforms.
• Strong proficiency in C++ and Python (for both performance and tooling).
• Hands-on experience with modern robotics/physics simulation environments (e.g., Gazebo/Ignition, Isaac Sim/Omniverse, Unity, Unreal, MuJoCo, Webots).
• Strength in platform/tool-building: APIs, frameworks, developer workflows, or similar.
• Strong understanding of robotic system modeling, multi-axis motion, and real-time behaviors.
• Experience integrating simulation into workflows, automated testing, and CI/CD.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate across engineering domains and drive technical alignment.
• Track record of delivering production-ready tools/platforms for internal engineering teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience modeling distributed embedded systems or multi-controller communication architectures.
• Background with SIL/HIL or hybrid real/sim test environments.
• Familiarity with warehouse, mobility, or material-handling robotics.
• Prior technical mentorship or architectural leadership experience.

A Final Note:

You’re encouraged to apply even if you can’t take on every example project in its totality. We work closely and collaboratively at Mytra - No one takes on projects alone. We seek people who are eager to work together, learn new things, and bring unique perspectives.

Benefits Include:

• Competitive compensation + equity grants at a high growth company backed by top tier VCs
• Medical, dental, vision, 401(k), commuter benefits, and pet insurance
• Lively modern combined office and lab space where we rapidly iterate through design, build and test phases
• Lunch and snacks provided in the office; we eat and share stories together at the “long” table
• Flexible hours and flexible PTO

Pay Notice:

• Compensation for this position will be negotiated based on the candidate's experience level and location. The posted salary band is applicable only to the San Francisco Bay Area and is subject to change.