Senior Manager, AlpaSim & AlpaDreams Production

Overview

• Simulations are being reinvented in the face of AI.
• Handcrafted game-engine simulators are giving way to neural simulation — data-driven scene reconstruction and AI-generated environments that make it possible to test and train driving and robotics at a fidelity and scale that wasn't previously achievable.
• NVIDIA's AlpaDreams model and AlpaSim stack are the beginning of redefining the baseline for next-generation simulation.
• We are seeking an engineering leader to help productization of these amazing technologies.
• You will form a team, take the ground breaking research in neural rendering, simulation, and learning, and harden it into a robust, modular, production-quality platform.
• This role lives at the boundary between research and production — you need enough technical depth to evaluate what's coming out of research, and the execution chops to platform developers can depend upon.
• You'll work alongside extraordinary research teams and NVIDIA leadership.
• If turning breakthrough research into something developers rely on every day sounds like the best job you can envision, we'd love to talk.
• What you'll be doing: Establish Alpasim and AlpaDreams as the open-source standard for neural simulation in AV, and scale the team and community to get there Take the latest research in neural rendering, simulation, and learning and work it into a modular architecture that supports fast exploration of this space Own product and engineering excellence — performance, scalability, reliability, developer experience, CI/CD, release management Partner with research teams to translate breakthroughs into production-ready platform capabilities Drive the research-to-production pipeline: take fragile prototypes and ship them as things developers can depend on What we need to see: Outstanding track record of contributions to the Graphics, Simulation, Robotics, Machine Learning or AV fields Bachelors degree or equivalent experience 12+ years experience, 6+ years leading teams Track record of taking research-stage systems and shipping them as robust, scalable products Strong understanding of ML frameworks, distributed systems, and production infrastructure Results-focused leadership -- you build the process, hit the dates, and hold the quality bar Ways to stand out from the crowd: Have you worked on neural rendering, differentiable simulation, or generative world models? Have you built developer ecosystems or research communities around open-source projects? Direct experience with AV simulation platforms like CARLA, Applied Intuition, dSPACE, or internal OEM tools is a huge plus.
• So is experience across the AV ecosystem -- OEMs, Tier-1s, startups, research labs -- and understanding what they actually need from a simulation platform.