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# Simulation Team Lead at Sunrise Robotics Corporation

- **Company:** Sunrise Robotics Corporation
- **Location:** CET +/- 3
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-06-01
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sunrise/422236fd-7335-4e3b-a887-7143d57943c6

## Job description

## OUR MISSION:

At Sunrise Robotics, we are dedicated to augmenting humanity through intelligent robotics. Our mission is to elevate the world of manufacturing by introducing intelligent, flexible robots that enhance human capabilities and existing machinery, ushering in the next era of production at higher quality, with less waste, and lower cost.

## OUR VISION:

We see a future where every element of manufacturing, from design to assembly, is optimised with intelligent automation. Our vision is to integrate flexible robotic solutions, based on generic hardware and advanced software/AI capabilities, into manufacturing, particularly in small and medium-sized enterprises, to make automation economically viable and accessible, for all sizes of manufacturers. We are not just building robots; we are creating the strategically crucial components for autonomous, intelligent agents of the future.

## THE ROLE:

As Simulation Team Lead, you'll shape and deliver the simulation foundation that powers our AI training, solution validation and robot behaviour into high-fidelity virtual environments that scale from data collection to manufacturing running 24/7.

This is a hands-on leadership role. You will build and lead a multidisciplinary Simulation team, set the direction for our digital replica, synthetic data generation, and sim-based validation infrastructure. As a mentor and a leader, you will be responsible for hiring and performance management of the simulation team.

Working at the intersection of robotics, physics simulation, computer graphics, AI, and real-world deployment, you'll help shape Sunrise's simulation roadmap and ensure our virtual environments produce data, models, and behaviours that transfer reliably from sim to the customer in the real world.

## WHAT YOU'LL DO:

- Build, lead, and mentor a high-performing multidisciplinary Simulation team. Own hiring, performance management, and career development across physics, 3D design, robotics, and software engineering.
- Set and maintain production-level quality standards, ensuring simulations reliably support AI training, robotics behaviour development, and customer production systems running 24/7.
- Partner with Simulation Tech Leads on technical direction for digital replicas, synthetic data generation, and customer solution simulation. Contribute to PRDs and technical design documents with constructive, critical feedback.
- Drive the Simulation team's roadmap - define commitments, uphold accountability, monitor progress, surface risks early, and reduce technical debt.
- Run the day-to-day operational cadence: reviews, standups, retrospectives, and reporting, ensuring work is predictable, visible, and successfully adopted across engineering.

## WHAT YOU'LL NEED:

- A proven track record leading multidisciplinary teams in simulation, robotics, or graphics/games engineering - including hiring, mentoring, and building high-performing, outcome-driven teams.
- Strong people-leadership instincts: you give direct feedback fast, grow your team rather than carry it, and identify underperformance and capability gaps early.
- Technical expertise in robotics and physics-based simulation, with the ability to move between engine internals and production delivery.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals in Python - sufficient to review PRs critically and contribute to high-leverage code when the team needs it.
- Production-level engineering experience: you have architected and delivered robust, scalable systems that operate reliably in real-world environments.
- Hands-on experience with simulation platforms such as NVIDIA Isaac Sim / Isaac Lab, PhysX, MuJoCo, Gazebo, or similar, and with OpenUSD scene building.
- Experience owning team delivery for systems that run in production with real customers.
- A product-oriented mindset: you balance technical ambition with operational reliability and customer impact.
- The ability to communicate complex architectural decisions clearly across multidisciplinary and international teams.

## WHAT MAKES YOU STAND OUT:

- Experience designing and operating large-scale GPU compute and rendering infrastructure for synthetic data generation or RL training.
- Hands-on experience modelling robotic systems - kinematics, dynamics, contacts, and sensors (cameras, depth, LiDAR, force/torque) - and integrating them with ROS2.
- Experience with industrial and collaborative robotics.
- Background in reinforcement learning environments or behaviour learning at scale.
- Experience deploying simulation as part of a virtual commissioning, digital twin, or FAT/SAT workflow with real customers.
- Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, AWS / GCP, and GPU cluster orchestration (e.g. SLURM, Ray).

## WHY US:

We're building a new category of intelligent, flexible robotic automation with real deployments, real customers, and momentum across Europe.

- High exposure: You'll define the simulation foundation the entire company builds on - working at the intersection of AI, robotics, and physics simulation with direct influence over how Sunrise scales.
- Career acceleration: A rare opportunity to build and lead a multidisciplinary simulation function from scratch at a company where sim-to-real is core to the product, not a side project.
- Real impact: The systems you build will determine how our AI trains, how our robots behave, and how customer cells are validated - before a single physical robot is deployed.

## About Sunrise Robotics Corporation

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Sunrise Robotics builds intelligent, autonomous robotic cells that transform industrial manufacturing by combining advanced AI with versatile hardware.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: Ljubljana, Slovenia
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Marko Thaler (CTO), Tomaž Štolfa (CEO), Joe Perrott (CCO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Industrial robotics, manufacturing automation, industrial machinery manufacturing.
- **Target customers**: B2B – manufacturing enterprises of all scales, especially those facing labor shortages and needing flexible automation.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Augment humanity through intelligent robotics” – starting with industrial manufacturing to automate unsafe and undesirable work.

## Products & Services
- **Sunrise Robotic Cell**: A dual-armed, AI-driven autonomous robotic cell that can be deployed in hours (plug-and-play), retrained quickly for new tasks, and operated safely at industrial speeds. Includes built-in radar-based safety (ISO 10218 / TS 15066 compliant), real-time perception, and a fleet learning system that improves over time. Type: Hardware + Software platform.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Total funding – conflicting reports: **$8.5M** (seed round led by Plural Platform in July 2025) per LinkedIn; **$16.8M** total raised per CB Insights. Both cited below.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Lead investor: Plural Platform. Additional investors not fully disclosed (CB Insights mentions “One Ventures” but unconfirmed).
- **Growth Signals**: Exited stealth in 2025; currently employs 37 people across 16 countries (UK, Slovenia, Spain, Ireland, Switzerland, Sweden, Italy, Croatia, Belgium, Denmark, others); 10 active job postings; monthly hiring trend +11.1% (though quarterly -41.2%). Founding team previously shipped 100M+ consumer electronics and built platforms serving 150M+ daily users.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Dual-arm human-like coordination** with industrial strength – enables transfer of complex human operations to automation.
- **Built-in AI perception** (radar + computer vision) for dynamic environment understanding and safe collaboration.
- **Plug-and-play deployment** – needs only a three-phase outlet, up and running in hours, not months.
- **Fleet learning** – each cell improves from every cycle, enabling continuous performance gains.
- **Safety-first design** compliant with ISO 10218 / TS 15066.

## Strategic Focus
- Scale the fleet of autonomous robotic cells across manufacturing verticals.
- Reduce friction for manufacturers to adopt automation at any scale (not just high-volume).
- Continue developing toward “general embodied intelligence” by integrating advanced AI with hardware.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Pan-European, collaborative team of engineers, scientists, roboticists, and company builders. Values-driven (mission to augment humanity).
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Hybrid – team regularly meets at the Ljubljana headquarters but works across 16 countries.
- **Notable Perks/Engineering Culture**: Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI + robotics from hardware to software; flat team structure; strong technical leadership (CTO holds PhD in Mechanical Engineering, built AI systems since 1999). Open roles include Robotics Software Engineer, AI Lead, Full Stack Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, and more.

## Sources
1. [sunriserobotics.co](https://sunriserobotics.co/) – Company homepage and product details.
2. [sunriserobotics.co/about](https://sunriserobotics.co/about) – Founders, mission, and team background.
3. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/sunrise](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sunrise) – Careers page with open positions.
4. [linkedin.com/company/sunriserobotics](https://www.linkedin.com/company/sunriserobotics) – Company details, funding ($8.5M), headcount, and employee breakdown.
5. [cbinsights.com/company/sunrise-robotics](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/sunrise-robotics) – Additional funding data ($16.8M total raised) and location.

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