# Control Systems Software Engineer, Robotics at OpenAI

- Company: OpenAI
- Status: Open
- Workplace: On-site
- Location: San Francisco
- Level: Mid-level
- Discipline: DevOps & SRE
- Employment: Full-time
- Salary: $380K–460K
- Posted: 2026-09-08
- Skills: Research, Robotics
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/60573bf4-13ad-4933-aba7-729f428e9f69

## Description

About the Team

Our Robotics team is focused on unlocking general-purpose robotics and pushing towards AGI-level intelligence in dynamic, real-world settings. Working across the entire model stack, we integrate cutting-edge hardware and software to explore a broad range of robotic form factors. We strive to seamlessly blend high-level AI capabilities with the constraints of physical systems to improve peoples’ lives.

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.

This is a deeply hands-on role focused on real-time systems, actuation, dynamics, low-level hardware interaction, and whole-robot performance. You’ll spend significant time working directly with robots onsite: debugging behavior, tuning subsystems, running experiments, and providing feedback across mechanical, electrical, and software teams.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA, and requires in-person 5 days a week.

In this role, you will:

 - Design and implement real-time control algorithms for robotic systems, including motion control, feedback loops, state estimation, actuator control, and subsystem tuning.

 - 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 rigorous experimentation, testing, commissioning, and verification.

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