Software Engineer, Simulation (Digital Twins)

About the role

Laelaps is seeking a simulation engineer to lead the development of digital twins for autonomous security robots. You will build pipelines to convert lidar maps into simulation-ready environments, enabling the training and testing of multi-robot patrol policies. This role focuses on creating realistic sensor simulations and scalable training environments to ensure seamless sim-to-real transfer.

Responsibilities

• Develop pipelines to convert lidar maps into simulation-ready digital twins including geometry, semantics, and materials.
• Create reinforcement learning environments for robot skills such as patrol and search.
• Generate rare event scenarios including intrusions, weather, and sensor failures.
• Implement realistic RGB, thermal, and lidar sensor simulations.
• Measure and minimize the sim-to-real performance gap on physical deployments.
• Scale simulation infrastructure to support parallel training on GPUs.

Required skills

• Robotics simulation
• RL training environments
• Isaac Sim
• Isaac Lab
• Python
• 3D data
• Point clouds
• Meshes
• USD
• GPU-parallel simulation
• Reinforcement learning

Nice to have

• MuJoCo
• Gazebo
• C++
• Legged robots
• Photogrammetry
• Gaussian splatting
• ROS 2
• Thermal sensor modelling
• Lidar sensor modelling

Benefits

• Equity package
• Career growth opportunities

About the Company

Laelaps AI is a robotics company based in Zurich building intelligent software for physical security. The company is backed by visionary investors and focuses on creating autonomous systems to handle critical tasks.