[Hiring] Senior Sensor Simulation Engineer, Radar @Parallel Domain

Role Description

Before an autonomous vehicle navigates a busy intersection, before any Physical AI system is trusted in the real world, it has to prove itself in ours. Parallel Domain builds the platform that validates the next generation of autonomous systems in high-fidelity virtual environments.

We're hiring a Senior Sensor Simulation Engineer to lead that work. This is a senior individual contributor and technical lead role:

• Own the technical direction for our sensor simulation portfolio — radar as the primary focus, extending across lidar, thermal/LWIR, and the broader multi-modal suite.
• Work hands-on building and validating models in modern C++.
• Partner with product and engineering leadership on investment decisions.

Responsibilities

• Set sensor simulation direction.
• Own the multi-quarter technical roadmap for radar, lidar, and thermal modeling.
• Build physically accurate sensor models.
• Validate against real sensor data.
• Model the hard conditions.
• Set the standard for scientific rigor.
• Partner with perception and ML teams.
• Grow the team's depth.
• Use AI tooling actively.

Qualifications

• A track record of building simulation, sensor-modeling, or computational-physics software.
• Strong grounding in physics, applied physics, or electrical engineering.
• Radar signal processing, automotive or industrial radar domain experience.
• Deep grounding in the physics of one or more sensing modalities.
• Demonstrated experience validating models against real measured sensor data.
• Effective at writing, debugging, and extending performance-sensitive code in C++.
• Ability to set direction and deliver against it.
• Comfortable communicating across technical discussions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience modeling pre-detection radar output.
• Thermal imaging or radiometric modeling background.
• Time spent building or working on commercial sensor simulation software.
• Experience with Unreal Engine or a comparable real-time engine.
• Physics engines, ray tracing, or GPU compute experience.
• Domain context in autonomous vehicles, robotics, ADAS, or aerospace sensing.

Core Tools

• C++
• Python
• Radar and RF modeling toolchains
• Ray tracing / GPU compute
• Real-time rendering engines
• Git
• CI

What Success Looks Like

• Shipped meaningful improvements to our radar model.
• Published a sensor simulation technical roadmap.
• Established a validation methodology and metric set.
• Become a credible technical voice with customers.

Compensation & Location

• Base salary range of $155,000 to $175,000.
• This role is fully remote within North America.

Benefits

• Equity
• Employer-paid supplemental medical, mental health, dental, and vision benefits
• Flexible paid vacation, sick time, winter shutdown, and 11+ holidays per year
• Paid parental leave
• Equipment budget to optimize your setup
• Annual learning and development stipend

Equal Employment Opportunity

Parallel Domain celebrates diversity and is committed to creating a safe and inclusive environment for all our people.