**Our Opportunity:** Our fast-growing Warehouse & Fulfillment Center teams are the heart of our operations, helping ensure millions of pet families around the country receive their pet supplies and medicines when they need them. Chewy’s AI & Data Innovation organization is developing cutting-edge technology to manipulate items across our extensive inventory. A key element of this initiative involves capturing, modeling, and manipulating a wide variety of products—ranging from cat toys to large bags of dog food. Our work spans real-world and physics simulation environments, enabling us to validate, refine, and iterate on solutions for ongoing improvement. We are seeking a big thinker to provide technical leadership, hands on science and engineering vision, in building an innovative environment that bridges both our real-world lab in Woburn, MA, and simulated platforms. Fulfill your potential alongside dedicated Team Members responsible for providing best-in-class delivery experiences and supply chain expertise! **WHO YOU ARE:** + **Passionate about Simulation and Curation:** You’re excited to build, curate, and develop a state-of-the-art simulation environment that supports physical-world libraries and deformable objects (e.g., dog food bags, ). + **Interest in Hybrid Learning** : Fascinated by designing and creating environments for hybrid real-world and simulated reinforcement learning to address grasping and manipulation challenges. + **Problem Solver for Scale:** Motivated by the challenge of manipulating a catalog of 115,000+ diverse items spanning a wide variety of e-commerce package types. + **Team Leader and Mentor** : Skilled in mentoring and leading a highly capable engineering and science team with a clear focus on impactful goals that drive business outcomes. + **Influential Thinker:** Inspired to see your ideas, pipelines and experiments influence top-level decision-makers and deliver measurable business results. + **Innovative Collaborator:** Committed to understanding and refining problem statements without over-constraining goal definitions and innovating in a collaborative environment to achieve optimal solutions. **WHAT YOU’LL DO:** + **Robot Development:** Design and test robot motion control algorithms in simulated environments before deployment on real hardware. + **Grasping and Manipulation:** Develop and validate solutions for handling a wide variety of products within our catalog. + **Business Impact:** This work will have a direct impact on saving money for our customers and creating a safer work environment for our team members. + **Connect & Grow:** There will be a requirement to travel and visit vendors as well as attend trade shows, representing the company and fostering key business relationships.Expect up to 10% travel. **WHAT YOU’LL NEED:** + **Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience** (AI, Data Science, Engineering, MIS, CS, or related field). + **Deep Knowledge of Robotics Simulation:** Extensive experience with physical robotics simulators, including expertise in physics engines, environment creation, sensor modeling, and running complex robot simulations. + **Expertise in Physical Simulation** : Hands-on experience with physical-level simulation tools such as Isaac Sim, Gazebo, PyBullet, or MuJoCo. Ability to build robot models, set up environments, program sensor data, and implement complex physics interactions within simulation platforms. + **Physics Engine Expertise** - Deep familiarity with physics engines embedded in simulation tools, ensuring accurate simulation of robot dynamics and environmental interactions. + **Advanced Programming Skills -** Strong coding proficiency in C++, Python, or other appropriate languages for developing simulation scripts and control algorithms. + **Sensor Modeling -** Experience designing realistic sensor models such as LiDAR, cameras, and IMUs within simulation tools to support perception algorithms. + **Environment Design -** Capability to create diverse and complex simulated environments using terrain editing tools and object libraries. + **Simulation Optimization -** Expertise in techniques for optimizing simulation performance to support real-time control and large-scale testing. **HIGHLY DESIRABLE:** + Publications in Physical AI, Robotics Simulation, knowledge systems, or related areas.  + Advanced degrees (Master’s or PhD) in AI, Robotics, Systems Engineering, or Applied Science.  + Contributions to open-source projects in Robotics Simulation or Physical AI. + Exposure to dynamic industries, such as e-commerce, supply chain or, where Robotics and AI intelligence drives innovation.  If you’re excited to tackle unique challenges in physical simulation and robotics while mentoring a talented team, this is your opportunity to make a significant impact in a fast-paced and innovative environment. **Chewy is committed to equal opportunity. We value and embrace diversity and inclusion of all Team Members. If you have a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act or similar law, and you need an accommodation during the application process or to perform these job requirements, or if you need a religious accommodation, please contact** **CAAR@chewy.com** **.** **If you have a question regarding your application, please contact** **HR@chewy.com** **.** **To access Chewy's Customer Privacy Policy, please click here (https://www.chewy.com/app/content/privacy) . To access Chewy's California CPRA Job Applicant Privacy Policy, please click here (https://chewyinc.phenompro.com/us/en/privacy-policy) .**