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Robotics Software Engineer

OpenAI · San Francisco

CHECKED 23H AGO

Frontier labonsiteSenior$255k–$325k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Develop software across diverse robotics hardware for general-purpose robotics.
  • Design robot control interfaces for varied morphologies, environments and tasks.
  • Build automation tools and data pipelines to evaluate advanced robotic policies.

What they offer

  • Equity

Ideal candidate

A hands-on builder with deep robotics experience who thrives collaborating across hardware, research and operations to bring intelligent systems to life in the real world.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience developing and shipping production-quality systems in robotics or hardware-integrated environments
  • Extensive experience integrating and deploying industrial automation systems, off-the-shelf robotics platforms, or custom hardware into production environments
  • Hands-on experience delivering production-quality software within collaborative, cross-functional engineering teams
  • Strong proficiency in Rust or C++
remote policy
In-person 4 days a week

Lab profile

About OpenAI

Builds safe frontier AI models and products like ChatGPT for broad benefit.

What they build

  • ChatGPT
  • OpenAI API
  • Frontier AI models

Known for

  • Frontier-scale distributed ML training
  • Massive GPU fleet and data center operations
  • Exabyte-scale data lakes and streaming
  • AI alignment and safety research

Key facts

  • Operates one of the world's largest GPU fleets
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