Hiring: Senior Asset Pipeline Engineer - Sensor Platform Company: Applied Intuition Location: Sunnyvale, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 10:28:59 Employment Type: Full-time / Remote Target Skills & Keywords : Assembly, C++, Python About the job Required Skills: •At Applied Intuition, You Will •Design the OpenUSD schema and composition strategy — references, variants, payloads, custom schemas — for a large, versioned 3D asset library that must scale across authoring tools and simulation engines •Build and own automated pipelines that move assets between DCC tools and real-time/simulation engines, removing manual hand-offs •Define automated validation gates that catch asset-integrity and fidelity issues in CI, before they reach production •Solve material conversion for simulation: translate complex authored materials into USD-native representations (UsdShade, and MDL where needed) while preserving the physical fidelity sensor simulation requires — not just visual appearance •Design the asset metadata strategy that powers discovery, semantic labeling, and downstream tooling •Take the pipeline from design through production — observability, reliability, and a smooth experience for the content authors who depend on it •Deep, practical OpenUSD composition expertise — references, variants, payloads, inherits, specializes — designing and debugging composition stacks, not just consuming USD files Qualifications: •NVIDIA Omniverse / Isaac Sim: Kit extensions (Python or C++), USD ingest, and Replicator / synthetic-data-generation pipelines •Houdini LOPs: native USD authoring and procedural scene graphs — a strong signal for someone who thinks in USD •MDL (Material Definition Language): physically-based material authoring and portability across renderers •Sensor simulation domain knowledge: how material properties (reflectance, roughness, emissivity) drive lidar, radar, and camera outputs — beyond visual quality •Automotive, defense, or robotics simulation experience: contexts where sensor fidelity matters beyond visual aesthetics (ROS 2 / scene assembly a plus) •Don’t meet every single requirement? If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles. Compensation: •$151,000 - $230,000 / year •Flexible work environment (work from home / hybrid options) Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!