Gatik AI

Gatik AI

Senior/Staff Simulation Integration Engineer

Santa Clara, CA · Staff+

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 21 days ago
PythonC++Node.jsFull-Stack DevelopmentDockerCI/CDLinuxMachine LearningSupply ChainLogisticsRoboticsSensorsTest Automation

About the role

  • We are seeking a Simulation Integration Engineer to be the critical technical link between these two teams.
  • This is a "Sim-to-Stack" orchestration role.
  • While you won't be deploying to physical hardware, you are responsible for ensuring the virtual world provides high-fidelity data to the

Responsibilities

  • ROS2 Stack Integration: Develop and maintain the ROS2 middleware layers (C++/Python) that allow AI models to receive sensor data and send control commands within the simulation.
  • Scenario Engineering: Script and implement dynamic testing scenarios (e.g., traffic interactions, pedestrian behavior, triggered events) using Python or simulator-specific APIs.
  • Bridge Development: Collaborate with our Senior Full-Stack Engineer to ensure simulation states and "Success/Failure" metrics are correctly streamed to our web-based dashboard.
  • Data Logging: Manage the serialization of ROS2 messages (MCAP/Bag files) for post-simulation analysis and playback.
  • Scenario Logic: Experience building event-driven logic and "adversarial" agent behaviors within a simulated environment.
  • Develop and maintain the ROS2 middleware layers (C++/Python) that allow AI models to receive sensor data and send control commands within the simulation.
  • Script and implement dynamic testing scenarios (e.g., traffic interactions, pedestrian behavior, triggered events) using Python or simulator-specific APIs.
  • Collaborate with our Senior Full-Stack Engineer to ensure simulation states and "Success/Failure" metrics are correctly streamed to our web-based dashboard.
  • Manage the serialization of ROS2 messages (MCAP/Bag files) for post-simulation analysis and playback.

Requirements

  • Expertise in ROS2: Mastery of ROS2 (Humble, Foxy, or Jazzy), including node composition, custom message types, and QoS configuration.
  • Programming: High proficiency in Python 3.x (for scenario logic) and Modern C++ (for performance-critical nodes).
  • Simulation Platforms: Proven experience with at least one major simulator (e.g., CARLA, Gazebo, NVIDIA Isaac Sim, or SVL).
  • Linux & Docker: Strong experience in Ubuntu-based development and containerizing robotics stacks for deployment.
  • Systems Thinking: Ability to debug complex timing and synchronization issues between a simulator and a distributed ROS2 stack.
  • High proficiency in Python 3.x (for scenario logic) and Modern C++ (for performance-critical nodes).
  • Proven experience with at least one major simulator (e.g., CARLA, Gazebo, NVIDIA Isaac Sim, or SVL).
  • Your role is to ensure that the autonomy stack runs reliably within a virtual environment, creating the complex testing scenarios and ROS2 infrastructure required to stress-test our AI models.

Nice to have

  • Experience with automated testing frameworks for robotics.
  • Understanding of coordinate frames (TF2) and spatial transformations.
  • Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines for automated simulation runs.
  • More about Gatik
  • We have delivered complete, proprietary AV technology - an integration of software and hardware - to enable earlier successes for our clients in constrained Level 4 autonomy.
  • By choosing the middle mile - with defined point-to-point delivery, we have simplified some of the more complex AV challenges, enabling us to achieve full autonomy ahead of competitors.
  • Visit us at Gatik for more company information and Careers at Gatik for more open roles.
  • Bloomberg: Autonomous Trucking Firm Gatik Inks Contracts Worth $600 Million

Skills

  • Ensure simulations can run in "headless" mode within Docker containers for automated, large-scale cloud testing.
  • Gatik Paves the Way for Safe Driverless Operations ('Freight-Only') at Scale with Industry-First Third-Party Safety Assessment Framework

Compensation

  • Salary Range - $170,000- $240,000

Benefits

  • Bonus Qualifications

Company info

  • Gatik, the leader in autonomous middle-mile logistics, is revolutionizing the B2B supply chain with its autonomous transportation-as-a-service (ATaaS) solution and prioritizing safe, consistent deliveries while streamlining freight movement by reducing congestion. The company focuses on short-haul, B2B logistics for Fortune 500 retailers and in 2021 launched the world's first fully driverless commercial transportation service with Walmart. Gatik's Class 3-7 autonomous trucks are commercially deployed across major markets, including Texas, Arkansas, and Ontario, Canada, driving innovation in freight transportation.
  • The company's proprietary Level 4 autonomous technology, Gatik Carrier™, is custom-built to transport freight safely and efficiently between pick-up and drop-off locations on the middle mile. With robust capabilities in both highway and urban environments, Gatik Carrier™ serves as an all-encompassing solution that integrates advanced software and hardware powering the fleet, facilitating effortless integration into customers' logistics operations.
  • Gatik, the leader in autonomous middle-mile logistics, is revolutionizing the B2B supply chain with its autonomous transportation-as-a-service (ATaaS) solution and prioritizing safe, consistent deliveries while streamlining freight movement by reducing congestion.
  • The company focuses on short-haul, B2B logistics for Fortune 500 retailers and in 2021 launched the world's first fully driverless commercial transportation service with Walmart.
  • Gatik's Class 3-7 autonomous trucks are commercially deployed across major markets, including Texas, Arkansas, and Ontario, Canada, driving innovation in freight transportation.
  • The company's proprietary Level 4 autonomous technology, Gatik Carrier™, is custom-built to transport freight safely and efficiently between pick-up and drop-off locations on the middle mile.
  • With robust capabilities in both highway and urban environments, Gatik Carrier™ serves as an all-encompassing solution that integrates advanced software and hardware powering the fleet, facilitating effortless integration into customers' logistics operations.
  • We are building a high-scale, web-based simulation platform designed to validate autonomous systems.
  • What we're looking for
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