Simulation Engineer (Controls) - (All Genders)

• Develop, maintain, and extend simulation environments for autonomous and unmanned systems

• Build and integrate physics-based simulation frameworks for robotics, aerospace, and embedded system validation

• Design and maintain realistic simulation scenarios for navigation, control, perception, and mission-level behavior

• Work with physics engines and simulation stacks to model vehicle dynamics, sensors, actuators, and environmental effects

• Support software-in-the-loop, system-in-the-loop, and hardware-in-the-loop testing workflows

• Develop and maintain SITL and HITL test setups for embedded systems, autonomy software, and robotic platforms

• Integrate simulation environments with ROS2-based autonomy stacks and embedded software workflows

• Support validation and testing of guidance, navigation, control, and perception algorithms in simulated environments

• Create synthetic test environments for contested, degraded, and GNSS-denied conditions

• Develop interfaces between simulators, autopilots, middleware, and edge software systems

• Conduct debugging, verification, and performance analysis across simulation and real-system interfaces

• Collaborate closely with autonomy, embedded, robotics, and test engineers to ensure simulation supports real development needs

• Produce technical documentation, test reports, and analysis of simulation fidelity, limitations, and results

• Strong programming skills in C/C++ and Python

• Good understanding of physics, classical mechanics, and system dynamics

• Hands-on experience with physics engines and simulation frameworks

• Experience with NVIDIA simulation tools and/or open-source simulation stacks

• Experience with robotics or unmanned systems simulation workflows

• Experience with SITL and HITL testing

• Experience integrating simulation with ROS2-based systems

• Strong debugging, validation, and testing skills

• Good understanding of sensor simulation, actuator modeling, and system interfaces

• Experience working with Linux-based development environments

• Ability to build reliable simulation pipelines for software development, test, and validation

• Structured engineering mindset with strong analytical and problem-solving ability

Nice to Have

• A university degree in Physics, Aerospace Engineering, Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field

• Strong background in rigid body dynamics, flight dynamics, multibody systems, control theory, or numerical methods

• Experience with NVIDIA Isaac Sim, Isaac Lab, Omniverse, Gazebo, Ignition, AirSim, PX4 SITL, ArduPilot SITL, JMAVSim, or similar frameworks

• Experience with GPU-accelerated simulation, rendering, or synthetic data generation

• Experience modeling EO, IR, IMU, GNSS, barometer, lidar, radar, or camera sensors

• Experience with Monte Carlo analysis, scenario generation, and simulation-based validation

• Understanding of aerodynamic modeling, propulsion modeling, and environmental effects such as wind and turbulence

• Experience with real-time simulation constraints and hardware interfacing for HITL setups

• Experience in autonomous systems, aerospace, UAVs, UGVs, defence systems, or advanced robotics

• Familiarity with embedded systems, middleware, and autonomy software stacks

• Experience supporting field tests by correlating simulation results with real-world data