Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. TD SYNNEX North America is focused on building real-world Physical AI systems where models interact with physical machines. The Physical AI Engineer role involves building and maintaining simulation environments for robotics, generating synthetic data, and developing reinforcement learning pipelines to ensure robust performance in real-world applications.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain high-fidelity, physics-accurate simulation environments in NVIDIA Omniverse and Isaac Sim for training, testing, and validating robotic systems
- Generate synthetic datasets at scale, including sensor and camera simulation, domain randomization, procedural scene variation, and automated annotation such as segmentation, depth, bounding boxes, and pose. You own dataset quality, versioning, and delivery
- Design and run reinforcement learning and imitation learning pipelines using simulation-generated and synthetic data
- Train and tune policies for control, planning, navigation, and manipulation, with emphasis on robustness and sim-to-real performance
- Define task curricula, reward functions, and evaluation benchmarks so policy performance is measured before it reaches hardware
- Model sensors, actuators, and contact behavior, and debug simulation instability, non-physical behavior, and determinism issues
- Drive simulation-to-real transfer through domain randomization, system identification, and validation on physical systems
- Build reusable tooling, APIs, and documentation so the broader team can stand up new environments and tasks without deep simulation expertise
- Integrate foundation models to support reasoning, task decomposition, and human-in-the-loop learning
Skills
- 5+ years in robotics, reinforcement learning, simulation, or applied machine learning. Degree in Robotics, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent hands-on experience
- Hands-on experience training robotic agents in simulation, on physical systems, or both
- Strong background in reinforcement learning, imitation learning, or learning-based control, including domain randomization and curriculum learning
- Proven experience building simulation environments in NVIDIA Omniverse, Isaac Sim, or Isaac Lab, or comparable GPU-accelerated simulation platforms
- Direct experience generating synthetic data for model training, including sensor simulation, annotation pipelines, and large-scale dataset generation
- Working knowledge of OpenUSD as a robotics engineer, including asset conversion into a simulation pipeline from formats such as URDF or MJCF
- Production experience with at least one RL library: RSL-RL, RL-Games, skrl, or Stable-Baselines3
- Strong Python and the deep learning stack, such as PyTorch or JAX, with the ability to build and scale training pipelines beyond a single workstation
- Experience applying or integrating foundation models into robotics or decision-making workflows
- Builder mindset with a track record of moving learning systems from experiment to deployment
- PhysX schemas and physics tuning
- MuJoCo Playground, NVIDIA Warp, or Newton
- Omniverse Replicator or comparable synthetic data generation frameworks
- World foundation models used for data augmentation and photoreal domain transfer
- Vision language action models or multimodal policies
- ROS 2 or comparable robotics middleware, real-time systems, or physics engines
- Model-free or model-based RL at scale, including distributed or cloud-scale training orchestration
- Training perception models such as detection, segmentation, or pose estimation on synthetic data
- C++ alongside Python for real-time robotics systems
- Experience operationalizing learned policies on physical robots in production environments
Benefits
- Remote or hybrid, US-based, with periodic time onsite at our robotics facility.
- Flexible working hours aligned to experimentation and training cycles.
- Elective Benefits: Our programs are tailored to your country to best accommodate your lifestyle.
- Formal programs on leadership and professional development, and many more on-demand courses.
- Seminars, events, and our global Life Empowerment Assistance Program to boost your financial, physical, and mental well-being.
- Inclusive education, meaningful peer-to-peer conversations, and equitable growth and development opportunities.
- Onboarding program: Network with other new co-workers within your first 30 days.
- Internal, peer-led inclusive communities and activities, including business resource groups, local volunteering events, and more environmental and social initiatives.
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