Research Engineer, Robotics Simulation & Evaluation

Job overview

The Research Engineer, Robotics Simulation & Evaluation role is onsite in Santa Clara, CA. Compensation is not specified. The role builds simulation environments and tools for embodied AI and robotics. The engineer develops environments, training workflows, and evaluation systems that let robotic policies be trained and tested at scale before real-world deployment. By validating simulation against robot behavior and improving reproducibility, the role supports measurable improvements in robotic performance.

What you'll do

• Build and maintain simulation environments for robot learning, training, and evaluation
• develop robotic tasks, environments, reward functions, and evaluation metrics
• support simulation-based policy training and automated evaluation
• implement domain randomization
• develop sensor simulation, synthetic data, or scene reconstruction workflows as relevant
• validate simulation against real-world robot behavior
• build reusable tools and pipelines.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

research engineer

robotics simulation

evaluation

embodied ai

robot learning

python

isaac sim

isaac lab

mujoco

santa clara ca

maxinsights

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Health insurance, vision care, dental coverage, 401(k), paid holidays, paid time off, and sick leave.

Why this role

Candidates may specialize in simulation-based policy training and evaluation or in scene reconstruction and synthetic data generation; experience across both areas is not required.

About the employer

Maxinsights is hiring for this role. Industry: Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology). Sector: 54.