Control Systems Software Engineer, Robotics

The role

You will architect, implement, tune, and verify control infrastructure for robotic systems. This hands-on role involves working with real-time systems, actuation, dynamics, and low-level hardware interaction.

What you will do

• Design and implement real-time control algorithms for robotic systems
• Define the control architecture from low-level actuators to whole-robot behavior
• Identify and characterize actuator, hardware, and software parameters through experimentation
• Work with machine learning engineers to implement reinforcement learning models
• Collaborate across mechanical, electrical, and software teams
• Help inform mechanical and electrical design
• Create the control system architecture

Required qualifications

• Strong robotics background, including manipulators, mobile robots, or other complex physical systems
• Experience with actuation, control systems, robot dynamics, estimation, subsystem tuning, or whole-body motion
• Comfortable being hands-on with robotic hardware
• Strong fundamentals in classical control, system dynamics, and estimation
• Exposure to modern learning-based or reinforcement learning approaches
• Ability to move across the stack from low-level actuator behavior to higher-level algorithms
• Experience writing performant production-quality software in C++ or Rust

Nice to have

• Experience with robotic hardware and enjoy iterating quickly between simulation and real-world testing environments

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.