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Software Engineer: Robotics Controls

Generalist AI· Technical Staff
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San Francisco Bay Area (San Mateo) or Boston (Somerville)$200k - $350kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Software engineer responsible for designing, implementing, and testing the real-time control system for Generalist's robot embodiments, collaborating with ML and hardware to ensure safe, efficient, and responsive actions.

Responsibilities

  • 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

Qualifications

  • Extensive experience in rigid body kinematics, and robotic controls
  • Experience bringing robots into production environments with stringent reliability requirements
  • Experience in high performance, production-ready Python and C++
  • Experience with kinematics/simulation libraries
  • Experience in robotic middleware platforms such as ROS/ROS2/ZCM
  • Extensive experience (5+ years), often including a PhD

Skills

Required:Rigid body kinematics and robotic controlsPythonC++ROS/ROS2/ZCMKinematics/simulation libraries
Last updated Sep 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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