Staff Software Engineer, Robotics (Bay Area / Paris)

Staff Software Engineer, Robotics (Bay Area / Paris)

Join Genesis AI as a Staff Software Engineer, Robotics in the Bay Area or Paris. This role is open for applicants who want to shape the future of general‑purpose robots.

What You’ll Do

• Design, implement, and optimize the embedded control stack for general‑purpose robots.
• Design motion planning and trajectory optimization algorithms for dynamic locomotion and manipulation.
• Build real‑time state estimation pipelines for pose, contact, and force sensing, fusing heterogeneous sensor data under noise and uncertainty.
• Formulate and solve optimal control problems (nonlinear MPC, convex optimization, trajectory optimization) for high‑performance and stable behavior.
• Build modular and robust software frameworks enabling rapid iteration between simulation and hardware.
• Lead debugging, tuning, and validation of controllers directly on physical robots.

What You’ll Bring

• Passion for your craft and demonstrated excellence in control systems engineering.
• Extensive experience in designing, implementing, and deploying advanced control algorithms on real robotic system products (8+ years).
• Deep expertise in dynamics, kinematics, optimal control, and state estimation.
• Strong command of hardware interfaces, sensors (IMUs, F/T sensors), and actuation technologies (motors, gearboxes, drivers).
• Production‑level mastery of C++ with a track record of building reliable, safety‑critical software.
• Proven ability to bridge across hardware, software, and algorithms to deliver robust end‑to‑end systems.
• An open mind about the power of deep learning, reinforcement learning, and vision‑language‑action models as critical for general‑purpose robotics.
• Bonus: Experience shipping humanoid robots or whole‑body control systems.
• Bonus: Impactful published work in control theory, state estimation, or mathematical optimization.
• Bonus: Familiarity with parallel computation on GPUs to accelerate optimization.

Seniority Level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment Type

Full‑time

Job Function

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

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