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# Software Engineer: Robotics Controls

- **Company:** The Generalist LLC
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, C++ (Programming Language), Middleware, Firmware, Python (Programming Language), Kinematics, Language Modeling, Software Engineering, Robot Operating System
- **Published:** October 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/software-engineer-robotics-controls-san-francisco-ca--725c1d3d-b3bf-420f-a438-738960bbacf5

## About the Role

Software Engineering, Robotics Software, Data Modeling, DNA, Autonomous Driving Systems, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Modeling Languages, Genetics, Control Systems, * 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

## Description

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.

You'll be responsible for:

 * 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