Principal Engineer, Simulation Platform Specialist — Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

Principal Engineer, Digital Twin & Simulation Platform

A global industrial manufacturer is building its Physical AI and construction autonomy platform. They are hiring a hands-on Principal Engineer to lead the architecture of their next-generation digital twin and simulation platform, covering machines, terrain, sensors, physics and rendering.

You will be expected to :

• Define the end-to-end architecture for the digital twin and simulation platform

• Lead the OpenUSD asset and scene pipelines, and build Omniverse Kit extensions

• Bring CAD, GIS, terrain, sensor and machine data into the simulation

• Set the standards for fidelity, determinism, performance and interoperability

• Run containerised simulation across on-prem and CoreWeave GPU environments

• Lead architecture across teams and mentor senior engineers

Requirements :

• 7+ years in backend engineering and 5+ years in frontend or visualisation

• Strong Python plus C++, C#, TypeScript or similar

• Deep expertise in NVIDIA Omniverse, Kit SDK, OpenUSD and RTX

• Experience with Isaac Sim and with Newton or other GPU-accelerated physics engines

• Experience with Unreal or Unity and with GIS tools (Cesium, Mapbox, coordinate systems)

• Experience building map-to-OpenUSD or site-to-sim pipelines