Fauna uses simulation to train robots, evaluate their behavior, and develop new capabilities before deploying them in the real world. We're looking for a Simulation Software Engineer to build the environments, tools, and systems that make this possible-from generating diverse virtual worlds to testing robot behavior and running simulation at scale.
You'll partner with scientists, robotics engineers, and technical artists to expand what robots can experience in simulation and what our teams can build with it. Your work could span procedural scene generation, automated evaluation, interactive experiences, and remotely hosted simulation. We welcome backgrounds in robotics, real-time systems, simulation, and scalable data infrastructure.
Key job responsibilities
- Develop workflows for generating, configuring, and managing diverse scenes, assets, and scenarios.
- Extend simulation to support robot capabilities and interactions among robots, people, and dynamic environments.
- Make simulation experiments reproducible and easy to inspect, with tools for automated evaluation, debugging, and regression testing.
- Build reliable pipelines for generating, processing, and managing simulation data.
- Scale simulation through automation, workload orchestration, and remote hosting, supporting both batch workloads and interactive use.
- Partner with scientists and technical artists to improve simulation performance, usability, and fidelity to real robot behavior (sim2real).
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust
- Experience developing robotics software, simulation systems, real-time applications, or scalable data pipelines.
- 2+ years of non-internship experience designing or architecting new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience with robotics simulation frameworks or real-time 3D engines, such as Isaac Sim, Isaac Lab, MuJoCo, Unreal Engine, or Unity.
- Experience with procedural scene generation, asset management, sensor simulation, or rendering.
- Experience with distributed systems, cloud-hosted simulation, or infrastructure for model inference and evaluation at scale.
- Experience building evaluation frameworks or tools for inspecting, replaying, and testing complex system behavior.
- Familiarity with sim2real transfer, domain randomization, or evaluating robot capabilities across varied environments.
- Working knowledge of 3D math, including coordinate transforms, quaternions, and camera models.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, NY, New York - 158,100.00 - 213,800.00 USD annually