Sunrise Robotics Corporation - Simulation Team Lead
Requirements
• A proven track record leading multidisciplinary teams in simulation, robotics, or graphics/games engineering - including hiring, mentoring, and building high-performing, outcome-driven teams. • Strong people-leadership instincts: you give direct feedback fast, grow your team rather than carry it, and identify underperformance and capability gaps early. • Technical expertise in robotics and physics-based simulation, with the ability to move between engine internals and production delivery. • Strong software engineering fundamentals in Python - sufficient to review PRs critically and contribute to high-leverage code when the team needs it. • Production-level engineering experience: you have architected and delivered robust, scalable systems that operate reliably in real-world environments. • Hands-on experience with simulation platforms such as NVIDIA Isaac Sim / Isaac Lab, PhysX, MuJoCo, Gazebo, or similar, and with OpenUSD scene building. • Experience owning team delivery for systems that run in production with real customers. • A product-oriented mindset: you balance technical ambition with operational reliability and customer impact. • The ability to communicate complex architectural decisions clearly across multidisciplinary and international teams. • What Makes You Stand Out: • Experience designing and operating large-scale GPU compute and rendering infrastructure for synthetic data generation or RL training. • Hands-on experience modelling robotic systems - kinematics, dynamics, contacts, and sensors (cameras, depth, LiDAR, force/torque) - and integrating them with ROS2. • Experience with industrial and collaborative robotics. • Background in reinforcement learning environments or behaviour learning at scale. • Experience deploying simulation as part of a virtual commissioning, digital twin, or FAT/SAT workflow with real customers. • Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, AWS / GCP, and GPU cluster orchestration (e.g. SLURM, Ray).
Responsibilities
• Build, lead, and mentor a high-performing multidisciplinary Simulation team. Own hiring, performance management, and career development across physics, 3D design, robotics, and software engineering. • Set and maintain production-level quality standards, ensuring simulations reliably support AI training, robotics behaviour development, and customer production systems running 24/7. • Partner with Simulation Tech Leads on technical direction for digital replicas, synthetic data generation, and customer solution simulation. Contribute to PRDs and technical design documents with constructive, critical feedback. • Drive the Simulation team's roadmap - define commitments, uphold accountability, monitor progress, surface risks early, and reduce technical debt. • Run the day-to-day operational cadence: reviews, standups, retrospectives, and reporting, ensuring work is predictable, visible, and successfully adopted across engineering.
Benefits
• We're building a new category of intelligent, flexible robotic automation with real deployments, real customers, and momentum across Europe. • High exposure: You'll define the simulation foundation the entire company builds on - working at the intersection of AI, robotics, and physics simulation with direct influence over how Sunrise scales. • High exposure: • Career acceleration: A rare opportunity to build and lead a multidisciplinary simulation function from scratch at a company where sim-to-real is core to the product, not a side project. • Career acceleration: • Real impact: The systems you build will determine how our AI trains, how our robots behave, and how customer cells are validated - before a single physical robot is deployed. • Real impact:
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