Software Engineer: Robotics Controls

The role

You will own the software that controls robots. You will collaborate with ML to turn output intentions into smooth, efficient, safe, and responsive actions on a variety of robot embodiments.

What you will do

• Design, implement, and test the entire real-time control system from low-level firmware to the input spec for each embodiment.
• Own a wide variety of robot embodiments from stock industrial co-bot arms to custom hardware.
• Collaborate with ML to turn output intentions into actions.
• Collaborate with hardware and partners to ensure the system, dynamics, and components are behaving optimally.

Required qualifications

• Extensive experience in rigid body kinematics and robotic controls
• Experience bringing robots into production environments with stringent reliability requirements
• Experienced in high performance, production-ready Python and C++
• Experience with kinematics/simulation libraries
• Experience with robotic middleware platforms such as ROS/ROS2/ZCM

Nice to have

• Extensive experience (5+ years), often including a PhD

About the company

Generalist is on a mission to build general intelligence for the physical world. The team includes researchers, roboticists, and company builders from OpenAI, Boston Dynamics, Google DeepMind, and other frontier labs.