OpenAI's Robotics team is focused on unlocking general-purpose robotics and pushing towards AGI-level intelligence in dynamic, real-world settings. This role is critical to unblocking research and enabling faster, higher-quality data generation by scaling our software engineering function.
Requirements
- You bring deep experience with data infrastructure and evaluation pipelines.
- You have hands-on exposure to embedded systems and real‑world platforms.
- You’ve shipped high‑reliability software in iterative research or production settings.
- You have proven success leading and scaling software engineering teams in robotics, autonomy, or hardware‑integrated environments.
- You have experience with robotics data pipelines and owning multiple initiatives end‑to‑end in complex environments
Responsibilities
- Build and own data infrastructure and evaluation pipelines to support research and real‑world validation.
- Ensure smooth integration of software with embedded/real‑world systems and test infrastructure.
- Drive execution and delivery of reliable software for physical platforms used in research.
Other
- This role is based in San Francisco, CA, and requires in-person 4 days a week.
- Partner closely with researchers to prioritize needs and deliver the data and tooling that accelerate progress.
- Provide day‑to‑day leadership for a growing software engineering team
- Scale the team thoughtfully over the next 12–18 months (recruiting, onboarding, career growth).
- Represent the team’s work across relevant leadership stakeholders.
- You care deeply about people leadership: mentoring, performance management, and org building.
