Software Engineer: Robotics Controls
Generalist
Software Engineer: Robotics Controls
Generalist
Develops embodied AI robotics platform
At Generalist, we are on a mission to build general intelligence for the physical world and make it useful to everyone. We believe the industries and homes of the future will depend on humans and machines working together in new ways. Robots can help us build more and get more done.
We build embodied foundation models, starting with a focus on dexterity. This requires advancing the frontiers of data, models, and hardware, to enable robots to intelligently interact with the physical world.
The company embraces both large-scale AI and robotics as core to its DNA. Our team of researchers, roboticists, and company builders come from OpenAI, Boston Dynamics, Google DeepMind, and other frontier labs—with a track record of shipping AI breakthroughs. Before Generalist, we pioneered large embodied multimodal models and vision-language-action models (PaLM-E, RT-2, Gemini Robotics), launched and scaled ChatGPT and GPT-4 to hundreds of millions of users, engineered the foundations of autonomous driving, built next-generation robots (Atlas, Spot, Stretch) and pushed the limits of what they can do (from parkour to manipulation, and testing robustness).
We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.
You will own the software that controls our robots. You will collaborate with ML to turn output intentions into smooth, efficient, safe, and responsive actions on a variety of robot embodiments. You will collaborate with hardware and partners to ensure the system, dynamics, and components are behaving optimally.
You’ll be responsible for:
Designing, implementing, and testing the entire real-time control system from the low-level firmware to the input spec for each embodiment we have
Ownership over a wide variety of robot embodiments from stock industrial co-bot arms to custom hardware
You might thrive in this role if you:
Have extensive experience in rigid body kinematics, and robotic controls
Have experience bringing robots into production environments with stringent reliability requirements
Are experienced in high performance, production-ready Python and C++
Experience with kinematics/simulation libraries
Have experience in robotic middleware platforms such as ROS/ROS2/ZCM
Successful candidates have extensive experience (5+ years), often including a PhD
Develops embodied AI robotics platform
Generalist AI develops general-purpose robots using embodied foundation models that learn how to manipulate the real world. Its GEN-0 model trains on massive real-world robot data to achieve end-to-end visuomotor control and dexterous sensorimotor skills, with data collected at industrial scale rather than relying on simulations. The company differentiates itself through a deep robotics and AI leadership team, a data-first training regime, and infrastructure designed to process vast real-world manipulation data toward versatile robots for various industries and homes. Its goal is to deliver broadly capable autonomous robots that can perform a wide range of manipulation tasks and enable humans and machines to work together in real-world settings.
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