Software Engineer: Robotics Controls
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Job overview
Generalist is hiring a Software Engineer: Robotics Controls. Generalist is seeking a Software Engineer to own the software that controls its robots, collaborating with machine learning, hardware, and partners to turn output intentions into smooth, efficient, safe, and responsive actions across various robot embodiments. The role involves designing, implementing, and testing real-time control systems from low-level firmware to input specifications for each embodiment, ensuring optimal system dynamics and component performance.
Key focus areas include Own the software that controls the robots., Design, implement, and test the real-time control system from low-level firmware to input specifications for each embodiment., and Collaborate with machine learning teams to translate output intentions into smooth, efficient, safe, and responsive robot actions..
Preferred (not required): Rigid Body Kinematics, Robotic Controls, High Performance Python, and Production-Ready Python.
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Full job description
About the Role 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:
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Designing, implementing, and testing the entire real-time control system from the low-level firmware to the input spec for each embodiment we have
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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:
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Have extensive experience in rigid body kinematics, and robotic controls
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Have experience bringing robots into production environments with stringent reliability requirements
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Are experienced in high performance, production-ready Python and C++
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Experience with kinematics/simulation libraries
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Have experience in robotic middleware platforms such as ROS/ROS2/ZCM
About Generalist At Generalist, we are on a mission to make general-purpose robots a reality. 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.
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