
Generalist
Generalist builds general‑purpose robots powered by large‑scale AI, focusing on vision‑language‑action and embodied multimodal models for real‑world tasks in industry and homes. The company develops robotics platforms and software and is privately held. It was founded in 2024, is headquartered in San Mateo, California, and its founding team includes alumni of OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Boston Dynamics.
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Own the real-time control software that turns intelligent robot intentions into smooth, safe, and responsive actions across diverse robot embodiments. This hands-on robotics role spans low-level firmware, controls, simulation, and production deployment.
Build customer-facing tools, APIs, and workflows that help researchers, deployment partners, and operators diagnose, teach, evaluate, and run Generalist’s robots. This product-focused engineering role combines full-stack development with substantial customer discovery and product definition.
Own high-impact optimizations across Generalist’s machine learning training and on-robot inference stacks, pushing GPU, model, hardware, and systems performance toward step-function gains. The role spans everything from CUDA kernels and ML architectures to CPU, network, NVLink, and framework-level bottlenecks.
Own the GPU compute and inference infrastructure that powers Generalist’s large-scale robot foundation models. You’ll optimize distributed training, ML data movement and storage, and real-time robot inference fleets.
Own the cloud infrastructure powering Generalist’s robotics data, APIs, services, and monitoring systems. You’ll build and manage high-scale compute and storage systems for processing petabytes of data while maintaining strong infrastructure security.
Build intuitive, production-quality frontend applications that help researchers, operators, and customers work with advanced robotics and foundation models. You’ll shape interfaces for robot monitoring, data exploration, model evaluation, and complex technical workflows.
Join Generalist as a Forward Deployed Engineer turning embodied AI and robotics technology into reliable customer deployments. You will own integrations, robot behavior debugging, customer delivery, and reusable deployment practices.
Build and deploy robotic AI systems for customers, owning the journey from workflow discovery and integration design through field debugging and reliable operation. As an early Forward Deployed Engineer, you will also shape the tools, diagnostics, and practices that scale future deployments.
Build intuitive frontend applications for robot monitoring, data exploration, model training, evaluation, and internal tooling. You’ll shape the frontend architecture and design system that help researchers, operators, and customers work with advanced robotics and foundation models.
Own the real-time control software that turns model intentions into safe, smooth actions across industrial and custom robots. This hands-on role spans low-level firmware, robotics controls, production deployment, and collaboration with ML and hardware teams.
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