Simulation Engineer

Open, ROS-integrated, still the default in most labs + startups.

AirSim + Colosseum (fork) remain the best UAV-specific sim.

CARLA is the open-source AV simulator the entire self-driving industry trained on. UGV and convoy-autonomy teams in defense increasingly use it for sensor + scenario fidelity Gazebo can't match.

GPU-accelerated, photorealistic — increasingly the standard at primes.

A simulator is only useful if the sensor models aren’t a lie.

Hand-authored terrains don’t scale. Blender + Houdini + USD do.

The single technique most likely to close the sim-to-real gap.

The scene-graph format Isaac + Omniverse are built on.

Synthetic data at scale with ground-truth labels.

You can’t iterate at production speed without parallel cloud sim.

Sim runs are noise without metrics that catch regressions automatically.

Same CI + monitoring discipline that works for ML works for sim.

Reference patterns from the open-source world save you months.