Software Engineer: Frontend
San Francisco Bay Area (San Mateo) or Boston (Somerville)Full-timePosted 1w ago
About the role
Frontend engineer at Generalist focused on building intuitive web interfaces for robotics and AI platforms, from prototypes to production, collaborating with design, product, and infrastructure to enable researchers, operators, and customers to interact with model behavior and robot fleets.
Responsibilities
- Build web applications for robot monitoring, data exploration, model training and evaluation, and internal tooling.
- Turn complex technical requirements into clear, responsive interfaces that help users make decisions and take action.
- Develop interactive visualizations for robot telemetry, video, experiment results, and system health.
- Shape frontend architecture that makes complex workflows easy to understand, test, and extend as the product grows.
- Establish a cohesive design system across our research platform and robot operator interfaces, with shared components, styles, and interaction patterns.
- Work directly with researchers, operators, and customers to understand their workflows, test ideas, and improve the product based on feedback.
- Improve the frontend development experience through clear conventions, reusable patterns, and tooling that helps engineers build consistent features quickly.
Qualifications
- Experience shipping and maintaining production web applications using TypeScript, React, and modern frontend tooling.
- Strong opinions around shared component libraries and UI patterns with good judgment about what to standardize and where flexibility matters.
- Strong frontend architecture fundamentals: clear component boundaries, explicit application state, and an ability to simplify complex code and make it easier for others to extend.
- Experience managing asynchronous data and user interactions, including keeping interfaces accurate and usable during background updates, slow requests, and failures.
- Clear communication and a collaborative approach to working across engineering, design, and product.
Skills
Required:TypeScriptReactFrontend toolingComponent libraries
Last updated Oct 13, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Generalist AI
Generalist is a frontier AI research and product driven company building general intelligence for the physical world.
Generalist AI: a frontier AI research and product driven company building general intelligence for the physical world.
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