12 hours ago
Base Salary
$380k - $460k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and implement real-time control algorithms for motion control, feedback loops, state estimation, actuator control, and subsystem tuning.
- Define control architecture from low-level actuators and hardware interfaces through whole-robot behavior and policy.
- Characterize actuator, hardware, and software parameters through experimentation, testing, commissioning, and verification.
- Collaborate with machine learning engineers to implement reinforcement learning models.
- Integrate control logic with sensing and actuation hardware across mechanical, electrical, and software teams.
- Inform mechanical and electrical design and determine appropriate abstraction levels across the robot control stack.
Requirements
- Strong background in robotics, including manipulators, mobile robots, or other complex physical systems.
- Experience with actuation, control systems, robot dynamics, estimation, subsystem tuning, or whole-body motion.
- Hands-on experience commissioning, debugging, testing, and iterating on robotic hardware.
- Strong fundamentals in classical control, system dynamics, and estimation, with exposure to learning-based or reinforcement learning approaches.
- Ability to work across low-level actuator behavior, hardware interfaces, higher-level algorithms, and whole-robot performance.
- Experience writing performant, production-quality software in C++ or Rust.
- Experience with robotic hardware and with iterating between simulation and real-world testing environments.
Benefits
- The role is based in San Francisco, California.
- Requires working onsite five days per week.
- OpenAI provides reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities.
About OpenAI
OpenAI builds and deploys large-scale AI models and tools—including ChatGPT, GPT-4–class models, DALL·E, and Whisper—sold via APIs and enterprise subscriptions to developers and businesses. It monetizes through usage-based API pricing and ChatGPT Plus/Team/Enterprise, and also reaches customers via Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, it operates as a private partnership.