Simulation Team Lead

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Slovenia.

📋 Description

• Build, lead, and mentor a diverse Simulation team specializing in physics, 3D design, robotics, and software engineering.

• Oversee hiring, performance management, and career progression for the simulation team.

• Establish and uphold production-level quality standards for AI training, robotics behavior development, and customer production systems.

• Collaborate with Simulation Tech Leads on digital replicas, synthetic data generation, and customer solution simulations.

• Provide constructive and critical feedback on PRDs and technical design documents.

• Drive the Simulation team's roadmap, commitments, accountability, progress tracking, risk management, and technical debt reduction.

• Conduct reviews, standups, retrospectives, and reporting to ensure predictable and transparent delivery.

• Ensure the successful adoption of simulation work across engineering.

• Shape the simulation roadmap for Sunrise Robotics and guarantee reliable sim-to-real transfer for customer deployments.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in leading multidisciplinary teams in simulation, robotics, or graphics/games engineering.

• Expertise in hiring, mentoring, and developing high-performing, outcome-focused teams.

• Strong leadership abilities, including providing direct feedback, team development, and identifying performance and capability gaps.

• Technical proficiency in robotics and physics-based simulation.

• Solid foundations in Python software engineering sufficient for reviewing PRs and contributing to code.

• Experience in architecting and delivering robust, scalable production systems.

• Practical experience with NVIDIA Isaac Sim / Isaac Lab, PhysX, MuJoCo, Gazebo, or comparable simulation platforms.

• Familiarity with OpenUSD scene building.

• Proven track record of managing delivery for systems operating in production with real customers.

• Product-oriented mindset balancing technical aspirations, operational reliability, and customer impact.

• Ability to articulate complex architectural decisions to multidisciplinary and international teams.

• Experience in designing and managing large-scale GPU compute and rendering infrastructure for synthetic data generation or reinforcement learning training.

• Knowledge in modeling robotic systems, including kinematics, dynamics, contacts, and sensors.

• Experience with integrating robotic systems using ROS2.

• Background in industrial and collaborative robotics.

• Familiarity with reinforcement learning environments or behavior learning at scale.

• Experience in deploying simulation for virtual commissioning, digital twins, or FAT/SAT workflows with real customers.

• Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, and GPU cluster orchestration tools like SLURM or Ray.

• Willingness to travel to Ljubljana, Slovenia at least once per quarter.

🏝️ Benefits

• High visibility and direct influence over the company's simulation foundation.

• Opportunity for career acceleration to establish and lead a multidisciplinary simulation function from the ground up.

• Significant impact on AI training, robot behavior, and customer-cell validation.

• Flexible remote work arrangement.

• Team meetups in Ljubljana, Slovenia at least once per quarter.