Physics Simulation Scientist

Skild AI is building the world's first general purpose robotic intelligence that adapts to unseen scenarios. They are seeking a Physics Simulation Scientist to lead advancements in simulation and physics-solving for their robot foundation model training, collaborating with experts and internal teams to build an open-source simulation stack.

Responsibilities:

• Improve and develop new physics solvers and modeling methods for high-DoF, contact-rich robotics tasks
• Design and implement GPU-accelerated solvers with a focus on throughput, stability, and scalability
• Profile and optimize simulation performance on modern GPU hardware and distributed clusters
• Work with external collaborators and the open-source community to advance simulation for robotics
• Collaborate with scene-generation engineers to scale robotic experience across diverse real-world environments
• Partner with ML researchers to improve sim-to-real transfer through better physical modeling, calibration, and training regimes
• Contribute to the long-term technical direction of Skild’s physical modeling and sim-to-real strategy