Sr Software Engineer- Simulation, Fauna

Responsibilities

Develop and manage simulation environments, tools, and systems to train robots and evaluate their behavior. Partner with scientists and engineers to improve simulation fidelity, performance, and scalability for real-world robotic applications.

Requirements

Requires 5+ years of professional software development experience, including system architecture and design. Candidates must have a bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent and experience in robotics, simulation, or scalable data infrastructure.

Skills

• Software engineering
• Robotics
• Simulation
• 3D engines
• Procedural generation
• Distributed systems
• Cloud infrastructure
• Data pipelines
• C++
• Python
• Isaac Sim
• MuJoCo
• Unreal Engine
• Unity
• System architecture
• Sim2real

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Prescription insurance
• Basic life insurance
• AD&D insurance
• Supplemental life plans
• EAP
• Mental health support
• Medical advice line
• Flexible spending accounts
• Adoption reimbursement
• Surrogacy reimbursement
• 401(k) matching
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Restricted stock units
• Sign-on payments

About this role

Fauna uses simulation to train robots, evaluate their behavior, and develop new
capabilities before deploying them in the real world. We’re looking for a
Simulation Software Engineer to build the environments, tools, and systems that
make this possible—from generating diverse virtual worlds to testing robot
behavior and running simulation at scale.

You’ll partner with scientists, robotics engineers, and technical artists to
expand what robots can experience in simulation and what our teams can build
with it. Your work could span procedural scene generation, automated evaluation,
interactive experiences, and remotely hosted simulation. We welcome backgrounds
in robotics, real-time systems, simulation, and scalable data infrastructure.

Key job responsibilities
- Develop workflows for generating, configuring, and managing diverse scenes,
assets, and scenarios.
- Extend simulation to support robot capabilities and interactions among robots,
people, and dynamic environments.
- Make simulation experiments reproducible and easy to inspect, with tools for
automated evaluation, debugging, and regression testing.
- Build reliable pipelines for generating, processing, and managing simulation
data.
- Scale simulation through automation, workload orchestration, and remote
hosting, supporting both batch workloads and interactive use.
- Partner with scientists and technical artists to improve simulation
performance, usability, and fidelity to real robot behavior (sim2real).

About the team
Fauna Robotics, an Amazon company, is building capable, safe, and genuinely
delightful robots for everyday life. Our goal is simple: make robots people
actually want to live and interact with in everyday human spaces.

We believe that future won’t arrive until building for robotics becomes far more
accessible. Today, too much effort is spent reinventing the fundamentals. We’re
changing that by developing tightly integrated hardware and software systems
that make it faster, safer, and more intuitive to create real-world robotic
products.

Our work spans the full stack: mechanical design, control systems, dynamic
modeling, and intelligent software. The focus is not just functionality, but
experience. We’re building robots that feel responsive, expressive, and
genuinely useful.

At Fauna, you’ll work at the frontier of this space, helping define how robots
move, manipulate, and interact with people in natural environments. It’s an
opportunity to solve hard problems across hardware and software with a team
focused on making robotics accessible and joyful to build.

If you care about making robotics real for everyone and building systems that
are as delightful as they are capable, we’d like to hear from you. Basic
Qualifications: - 5+ years of non-internship professional software development
experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language
experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and
scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience developing robotics software, simulation systems, real-time
applications, or scalable data pipelines. Preferred Qualifications: - 5+ years
of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code
reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
experience
- Experience with robotics simulation frameworks or real-time 3D engines, such
as Isaac Sim, Isaac Lab, MuJoCo, Unreal Engine, or Unity.
- Experience with procedural scene generation, asset management, sensor
simulation, or rendering.
- Experience with distributed systems, cloud-hosted simulation, or
infrastructure for model inference and evaluation at scale.
- Experience building evaluation frameworks or tools for inspecting, replaying,
and testing complex system behavior.
- Familiarity with sim2real transfer, domain randomization, or evaluating robot
capabilities across varied environments.
- Working knowledge of 3D math, including coordinate transforms, quaternions,
and camera models.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package
will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final
compensation will be determined based on factors including experience,
qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits
including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life &
AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health
Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy
Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits
[https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits].

USA, NY, New York - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually

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