Generalist
Software Engineer: Robotics Controls
San Francisco Bay Area (San Mateo) or Boston (Somerville)
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About the role
- 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
Responsibilities
- 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.
- Robots can help us build more and get more done.
- We build embodied foundation models, starting with a focus on dexterity.
Requirements
- Experience with kinematics/simulation libraries
Company info
- At Generalist, we are on a mission to make general-purpose robots a reality.
- 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.
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