Senior Asset Pipeline Engineer - Sensor Platform

Deep, practical OpenUSD composition expertise — references, variants, payloads, inherits, specializes — designing and debugging composition stacks, not just consuming USD files

Experience authoring and validating custom USD schemas (API and applied schemas)

Strong UsdShade material expertise: authoring, validating, and converting complex material networks

Built and owned automated DCC-to-engine pipelines in production — version-controlled Python that runs in CI, with real downstream users (not prototypes or research)

Managed USD at library scale: versioning, identifier and namespace conventions, and validation across thousands of assets

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.

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