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Senior Simulation Engineering ManagerBear Robotics • Redwood City, California, USA
Senior Simulation Engineering Manager

Senior Simulation Engineering Manager

Bear Robotics • Redwood City, California, USA
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Job Title : Senior Simulation Engineering Manager

Department : Software Engineering

Job Level : L5

FLSA : Exempt

Job Summary :

The Simulation & Test Automation Engineering Manager leads the team responsible for building maintaining and scaling the simulation and automated testing platforms that support our robotics development lifecycle. This role combines strong people leadership with deep technical experience across simulation frameworks distributed test systems and automation tooling. You will own team bandwidth prioritize incoming work and ensure high-quality reliable infrastructure for validating robot behavior at scale.

Responsibilities

People & Execution

  • Own team capacity staffing and prioritization across all simulation and test infrastructure work.
  • Work with Directors and engineering TLs to define quarterly / yearly roadmaps and engineering commitments.
  • Provide clear data-driven decisions on tradeoffs sequencing and resource allocation.
  • Lead hiring performance evaluations career development and coaching for engineers.

Technical Oversight

  • Oversee the architecture and operation of simulation tools (Gazebo) automated test pipelines and orchestration systems.
  • Partner with TLs on long-term strategy for simulation fidelity performance and scalability.
  • Ensure reliability reproducibility and consistency across simulation and automated testing environments.
  • Drive improvements in CI / CD integration automation frameworks and system observability.

    • Cross-Functional

  • Collaborate closely with navigation perception behavior hardware and QA teams to ensure simulation tools meet cross-team needs.
  • Coordinate complex test requirements and surface integration risks early.
  • Translate team and system requirements into actionable plans and realistic commitments.
  • Communicate system constraints simulation limitations and technical tradeoffs clearly to stakeholders and leadership.

    • Qualifications

  • 5 years of experience in robotics simulation automation infrastructure or backend / distributed systems.
  • Strong background with Gazebo (or similar simulators) ROS / ROS2 Docker VM / container orchestration and Python.
  • Experience designing or operating large-scale automated test systems or CI / CD pipelines.
  • 2 years managing or technically leading engineers.
  • Comfort balancing technical depth with organizational leadership and cross-team coordination.
  • Experience with cloud orchestration distributed job systems or robotics CI frameworks is a strong plus.

    • Physical Requirements

  • The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
  • Prolonged periods of sitting / standing at a desk and working on a computer. The employee routinely is required to sit; stand walk; talk and hear; use hands to keyboard
  • Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision color vision peripheral vision depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
  • Ability to lift 30 lbs.

    • Required Experience :

    Manager

    Key Skills

    Data Center Experience,ArcGIS,Cloud Infrastructure,Construction Estimating,Go,Mathcad,React,Redux,AWS,Software Development,Auto Estimating,Distributed Systems

    Employment Type : Full-Time

    Department / Functional Area : Software Engineering

    Experience : years

    Vacancy : 1

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