- Robot type
- Robot AI and Software
- Location
- USA
- Job type
- Software
- Posted
- Feb 12, 2026
- Salary
- $200,000–$350,000 a year
Full-time
Software Engineer: Robotics Controls
Job description
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.
At Generalist, we are on a mission to build general intelligence for the physical world and make it useful to everyone.
Job 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
- 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