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About Zeromatter
We're Zeromatter. Our mission is to accelerate how robotics and autonomy is built, tested, and trained by leveraging simulation to the fullest extent possible. Part of what we're building to accomplish this is a cloud-based sensor simulation platform that is beyond the state of the art.
We are looking for an individual who can support us in accomplishing this mission. You should apply if you're interested in working at a small-scale startup where you can live up to your potential, unencumbered by office politics or team boundaries. Working at Zeromatter gives you an opportunity to work on technology that is being used by well-known companies that have advanced simulation needs.
At Zeromatter, we believe in evaluating candidates based on their skills, experience, and potential. We are committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and believe that having a diverse team spanning a wide variety of backgrounds is a key asset. If you're passionate about robotics and simulation and eager to make a difference in the field, we'd love to hear from you!
Open positions
Machine Learning Engineer
As a Machine Learning Engineer at Zeromatter, you'll be at the forefront of creating the neural backbone that powers next-generation autonomous systems. You'll develop cutting-edge ML models that transform simulation fidelity, behavior prediction, and robotic learning capabilities. This role offers the rare opportunity to apply state-of-the-art machine learning techniques to solve real-world robotics challenges while working with a team that's redefining what's possible in simulation technology.
Rendering Engineer
As a Rendering Engineer at Zeromatter, you'll build the foundation of our photorealistic simulation platform. You'll develop and optimize cutting-edge rendering techniques that create virtual worlds indistinguishable from reality—not just to human eyes, but to the diverse sensors that power autonomous systems. This role sits at the intersection of physics, computer graphics, and high-performance computing, giving you the opportunity to push the boundaries of what's possible in physically-accurate rendering while directly influencing how the next generation of robotics and autonomous systems perceive and learn from synthetic environments.
Backend Infrastructure Engineer
As a Backend Infrastructure Engineer at Zeromatter, you'll architect the high-performance backend systems that power our revolutionary simulation platform. You'll design and implement scalable APIs, data pipelines, and distributed systems that handle the massive computational demands of photorealistic simulations across thousands of concurrent instances. This role offers the unique opportunity to build the technical foundation that enables next-generation autonomous systems to train and validate at unprecedented scale, combining deep backend expertise with cutting-edge distributed systems architecture.
Forward Deployed Engineer
As a Forward Deployed Engineer at Zeromatter, you'll be our technical expert embedded within our customer's engineering teams to ensure they are successful in integrating and leveraging our simulation platform. You'll work hands-on with customers, possibly at their location, to solve complex integration challenges, build custom solutions, and remove any barriers that prevent them from achieving their goals. This role offers the unique opportunity to see our technology deployed across diverse robotics and autonomy applications while directly influencing product development based on real-world customer needs. This is primarily a software engineering role with a strong focus on integration and related cross-functional work.
Software Engineering Generalist
As a Software Engineering Generalist at Zeromatter, you'll tackle diverse technical challenges that span our entire simulation platform. You'll write high-performance code that powers everything from interprocess communication to realistic actor models. This role gives you the freedom to work across our stack and deliver solutions that directly impact how the world's most advanced robotics and autonomous systems are built, tested, and trained.
Technical Program Manager (Customer Facing)
As a Technical Program Manager at Zeromatter, you'll orchestrate the delivery of cutting-edge simulation technology to some of the world's most innovative robotics and autonomy companies. You'll serve as the vital connection between our engineering teams and customers, translating complex technical capabilities into tangible business value. This role combines technical depth, strategic thinking, and relationship management to ensure our platform meets real-world needs while driving customer success and expansion opportunities.
Technical Program Manager (Internal)
As a Technical Program Manager at Zeromatter, you will drive the successful execution of technical initiatives, projects, and the roadmap for internal teams. This role owns development cycles, managing capacity planning, and ensuring alignment between team capabilities and company objectives. The ideal candidate combines strong technical understanding with exceptional program management skills to keep the teams running smoothly while facilitating future growth.
Validation Engineer
As a Validation Engineer at Zeromatter, you'll ensure our simulation platform delivers the accuracy and reliability that autonomous systems demand. You'll develop rigorous testing methodologies for critical simulation features from vehicle dynamics to sensor characterization while working directly with customers to validate and certify their autonomous systems using our synthetic data. This role offers the unique opportunity to shape how the industry validates simulation-trained algorithms, combining deep technical validation expertise with customer collaboration to enable the safe deployment of next-generation robotics and autonomous vehicles.
Platform Engineer
As a Platform Engineer at Zeromatter, you'll build and scale the cloud infrastructure that powers our revolutionary simulation platform across the world's leading robotics companies. You'll orchestrate massive computational resources across multiple cloud providers, ensuring our platform delivers photorealistic simulations with uncompromising reliability and performance. This role offers the rare opportunity to architect infrastructure at the bleeding edge of what's possible, enabling autonomous systems to be developed, tested, and validated in virtual worlds indistinguishable from reality.
Technical Artist: Pipeline Engineer
As a Technical Artist: Pipeline Engineer at Zeromatter, you'll build the systems that enable our team to create photorealistic simulation environments at unprecedented scale. You'll develop the tools, automation, and workflows that transform complex simulation requirements into production reality. This role combines technical programming expertise with artistic understanding to build pipelines that empower both our team and our platform to deliver next-generation simulation capabilities.
Technical Artist: Environment Generation
As a Technical Artist focused on Environment Generation at Zeromatter, you'll create the procedural systems that build hyper-realistic worlds for autonomous systems to explore and learn from. You'll leverage Houdini and our proprietary tools to craft diverse environments that challenge and validate robotic perception systems. This role offers the unique opportunity to blend artistic vision with technical expertise while pushing the boundaries of what's possible in simulation.
Developer Productivity Engineer
As a Developer Productivity Engineer at Zeromatter, you'll accelerate innovation by building the tools and systems that empower our world-class engineering teams to ship revolutionary simulation technology faster. You'll design CI/CD pipelines, development environments, and automation frameworks that transform how our engineers build, test, and deploy cutting-edge features for autonomous systems. This role offers the unique opportunity to multiply the impact of every engineer at Zeromatter, creating the development infrastructure that enables us to push the boundaries of what's possible in simulation technology.
Sensor Characterization Engineer
As a Sensor Characterization Engineer at Zeromatter, you'll bridge the gap between real-world sensors and their digital twins in our simulation platform. You'll work at the intersection of physics, signal processing, and software to create high-fidelity sensor models that push the boundaries of simulation accuracy. This role offers the unique opportunity to engineer complex simulated sensor systems, develop novel characterization methodologies, and directly influence how the next generation of autonomous systems perceive their environment.
Systems Engineer
As a systems engineer at Zeromatter, you will leverage your experience to work on a number of areas ranging from defining testing methodologies for our various product features all the way to working with our customers to help certify their autonomous systems by providing comprehensive information on how their algorithms were developed, trained, and evaluated using Zeromatter synthetic data. We are looking for an individual who is very self-managed and can help refine and realize our product vision in this area.
Contact us
Interested in joining our team? We'd love to hear from you! Please send your resume and a brief cover letter to careers@zeromatter.com or connect with us on LinkedIn. We look forward to reviewing your application!