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 [email protected].
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What We Do
At Chewy, our mission is to be the most trusted and convenient destination for pet parents and partners, everywhere. We view pets and pet parents as family, and are obsessed with meeting their needs and exceeding customer expectations through every interaction. Behind the scenes, our talented teams are made up of innovators, delighters, big-thinkers and of course, passionate pet people—creating a place where you'll be empowered to build, grow and unleash your fullest potential.
Launched in 2011, we offer the personalized service of a neighborhood pet store alongside the convenience and speed of e-commerce. Customers love shopping our wide selection of products of more than 100,000 products (including our Private brands and prescription Rx food and Rx medication products), which we offer at competitive prices, fast 1-2 day shipping and around-the-clock convenience that only e-commerce can offer.
Chewy’s commitment to customer service is the core of our brand, and our customers love us for it. We “WOW” pet parents through 24/7 assistance, advice and encouragement every day of the year. We make pet parenting easy with our convenient Autoship subscription program—which allows our customers to schedule their orders, so they never run out of their pet food, supplies and medication they need.
As an e-commerce company, product innovation drives our operations, and our team is constantly striving to find new and better ways to improve our customers’ experience. From an easy-to-navigate website and highly rated mobile apps, to detailed order tracking and personalized “Pet Profile” features, we are transforming the way pet parents shop.
Why Work With Us
We're proud to be one of the fastest growing e-commerce companies of all time.
With growth comes the exciting opportunity to be a part of a world-class organization of engineering, product, and design team members, responsible for driving our latest innovations and designing "out-of-the Chewy box" experiences.
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