Modeling and Simulation Engineer, Simulation Core

Tensor is an agentic AI company building agentic products that empower individual consumers. Our flagship product, the Tensor Robocar, is the world’s first personal Robocar and the first AI agentic vehicle—fully autonomous, automotive-grade, and built for private ownership at scale. Founded in 2016 in Silicon Valley, Tensor is headquartered in San Jose, California, with offices in Barcelona, Singapore, and Dubai.

About the role

Join our Simulation team, where we build the powerful virtual tools that bring autonomous vehicles to life. From development and training to testing and validation, our advanced simulation platforms empower teams to push boundaries, innovate faster, and ensure the highest levels of safety and performance—all within a dynamic digital world.

Our Simulation team is built on collaboration, mentorship, and a shared passion for innovation. With a long-term focus on advancing simulation systems for autonomous vehicles, the team brings together engineers from diverse backgrounds and experience levels. We are committed to fostering a supportive environment where knowledge is openly shared, and mentorship is a core value. You'll work alongside talented teammates who are dedicated to building a comprehensive simulation platform and tackling complex challenges together.

Responsibilities

• Model, design and develop behavior simulation software with high realistic standard for different traffic participants, such as pedestrians, bicycles, vehicles, trucks, and trains.
• Design and develop a scalable and flexible simulation framework and engine that can host and manage different modeling modules.
• Design and develop metrics to evaluate and ensure simulation behavior as real world.
• Design and develop a user interface, a language for module definition, and a data schema to define test scenarios.
• Design and develop virtual components to adapt with different AI modules.
• Work closely with other frontend, backend and modeling engineers to ensure simulation services work together as expected.
• Work closely with simulation users to locate issues, define features, and build code to address simulation bottlenecks.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software development experience, including internship.
• 2+ years of experience in architecture design (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems.
• 2+ years of simulation modeling development experience in ADS-related industry, focusing on behavior simulation, driving simulation, traffic simulation, or kinematic simulation.
• Experience in programming with at least one software programming language, including C++ and Python.

Preferences

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Master's degree in computer science, software engineering, or equivalent.

Locations

• San Jose, California, US (Salary Range: $75k—$300k USD)
• Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
• Singapore
• Dubai, UAE

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package.
• Opportunities for professional growth.
• Discretionary equity incentive plan.
• Comprehensive company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements.