Real-time Robotics Control Systems Engineer

Faangapply; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI in San Francisco, CA is seeking a Robotics Control Systems Engineer to architect, implement, tune, and verify the control infrastructure for intelligent, reliable robot behavior. This hands-on role emphasizes real-time systems, actuation, dynamics, low-level hardware interaction, and whole‑robot performance.

You will design real-time control algorithms, define the control architecture from actuators to policy, identify parameters through rigorous experiments, and collaborate with

Qualifications

• Strong robotics background 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 with robotic hardware including commissioning, debugging, testing, and iterating on real robots.
• Strong fundamentals in classical control, system dynamics, and estimation, with exposure to learning-based or reinforcement learning approaches.
• Able to move across stack from low-level actuator behavior to higher-level algorithms and whole-robot performance.
• Experience writing production-quality software in C++ or Rust.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement real-time control algorithms for robotic systems, including motion control, feedback loops, state estimation, and actuator control.
• Define the control architecture from low-level actuators and hardware interfaces through whole-robot behavior and policy.
• Identify and characterize actuator, hardware, and software parameters through experimentation, testing, commissioning, and verification.
• Collaborate with machine learning engineers to implement reinforcement learning models.
• Work with mechanical, electrical, and software teams to integrate control logic with sensing and actuation hardware.
• Help inform mechanical and electrical design to maximize capability and flexibility.
• Create the control system architecture from actuators to whole-robot policy.

Skills

Robotics fundamentals

Control systems

Real-time systems

Hands-on hardware

Tools

C++

Rust

Job description

OpenAI in San Francisco, CA is seeking a Robotics Control Systems Engineer to architect, implement, tune, and verify the control infrastructure for intelligent, reliable robot behavior. This hands-on role emphasizes real-time systems, actuation, dynamics, low-level hardware interaction, and whole‑robot performance.

You will design real-time control algorithms, define the control architecture from actuators to policy, identify parameters through rigorous experiments, and collaborate with