# Control Systems Software Engineer, Robotics **Company**: OpenAI **Location**: San Francisco **Work arrangement**: onsite **Experience**: senior **Job type**: Full time **Salary**: $380K – $460K **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124605186 **Apply**: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/60573bf4-13ad-4933-aba7-729f428e9f69?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_58da8d3a-ef2 ## Description ## Compensation The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The salary range for this role is $380K – $460K, with generous equity, performance-related bonuses for eligible employees, and the following benefits. Benefits include: - Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts - Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit) - 401(k) retirement plan with employer match - Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks) - Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees - 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time - Mental health and wellness support - Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage - Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth - Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible - Relocation support for eligible employees - Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends ## About the Team Our Robotics team is focused on unlocking general-purpose robotics and pushing towards AGI-level intelligence in dynamic, real-world settings. We integrate cutting-edge hardware and software to explore a broad range of robotic form factors. ## About the Role We're looking for a Robotics Control Systems Engineer to take on a foundational role within our robotics team. You'll help architect, implement, tune, and verify the control infrastructure that enables intelligent, reliable, and responsive robot behavior. Responsibilities include: - Designing and implementing real-time control algorithms for robotic systems - Defining the control architecture from low-level actuators and hardware interfaces through whole-robot behavior and policy - Identifying and characterizing actuator, hardware, and software parameters through rigorous experimentation, testing, commissioning, and verification - Working with machine learning engineers to implement reinforcement learning models - Collaborating across mechanical, electrical, and software teams to integrate control logic with sensing and actuation hardware - Informing the mechanical and electrical design to maximize capability and flexibility - Creating the control system architecture; determining the correct level of abstraction from actuators all the way up to whole-robot policy ## Requirements You might thrive in this role if you: - Have a strong robotics background, including manipulators, mobile robots, or other complex physical systems - Have experience with actuation, control systems, robot dynamics, estimation, subsystem tuning, or whole-body motion - Are comfortable being hands-on with robotic hardware, including commissioning, debugging, testing, and iterating on real robots - Have strong fundamentals in classical control, system dynamics, and estimation, with exposure to modern learning-based or reinforcement learning approaches - Can move comfortably across the stack, from low-level actuator behavior and hardware interfaces to higher-level algorithms and whole-robot performance - Have experience writing performant production-quality software in C++ or Rust - Experience with robotic hardware and enjoy iterating quickly between simulation and real-world testing environments ## Skills ### Required - robotics - control systems - real-time systems - actuation - dynamics - estimation - reinforcement learning - C++ - Rust ### Nice to have - manipulators - mobile robots - complex physical systems - classical control - system dynamics - modern learning-based approaches --- Source: [Apply at jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/60573bf4-13ad-4933-aba7-729f428e9f69?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)