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Senior Software Engineer
THERMOWORKS INC
American Fork, UT
ThermoWorks is looking for a hands-on Senior Software Engineer to join our Product Development team. You’ll build and improve the software that brings our connected products to life, with a…
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Software Engineer: Frontend
Generalist
Somerville, MA
…This requires advancing the frontiers of data, models, and hardware, to enable robots to intelligently interact with the physical…
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Electrical Engineer
Generalist
Somerville, MA
- $200,000 to $350,000 USD / year
Robots that learn from the world need hardware that can see, sense, and act within it. As a Hardware Engineer at Generalist, you will own electrical systems from end-to-end: from napkin…
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PCBA Reliability Engineer
Waymo
Mountain View, CA
Hardware Engineering is an innovative and collaborative group of electrical, mechanical, reliability, software and vehicle engineers. We design, build, and perfect the products which are…
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Sensor Technology Engineer
Wayve
United States
- $209,700 to $238,250 USD / year
You’ll work closely with Wayve’s hardware and software teams, OEMs, Tier 1s and sensor suppliers, helping connect what sensors can physically deliver with how the Wayve AI Driver performs…
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Lead Space System Engineer
STR
Melbourne, FL · Woburn, MA
The SMS Sector is seeking a Lead Space System Engineer to leverage their systems engineering expertise in a dynamic Research & Development environment. In this role, you will be an integral…
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Lead Space System Engineer
STR
Woburn, MA · Melbourne, FL
The SMS Sector is seeking a Lead Space System Engineer to leverage their systems engineering expertise in a dynamic Research & Development environment. In this role, you will be an integral…
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Sr. GNC Engineer / Modeling & Simulation
Mavensoft Technologies, LLC.
Chandler, AZ
…metrics, designing and implementing solutions, and integrating hardware and software components to help ensure system reliability and mission…
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Principal Embedded Software Engineer
Terran Orbital Corporation
Irvine, CA
Integrate and test software in simulation, flight‑replica, flight‑vehicle, and hardware‑in‑the‑loop environments.
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Staff Control Systems Engineer
Applied Research Associates, Inc.
Indian Head, MD
ARA’s team solves problems related to national defense and security. We are actively searching for a Control Systems Engineer to join our team. In this position, you will evaluate the test…
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ES234 Principal Software Engineer - EDGE
ADNET Systems, Inc.
Greenbelt, MD
We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead the architecture, design, development, integration, and verification of software for the Bench Checkout Equipment (BCE) supporting…
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Cyber Systems Engineer – VAX/OpenVMS
ASRC Federal Holding Company
Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD
You will keep the system secure, accredited and supportable, including hands-on maintenance of its VAX/OpenVMS hardware and software, working alongside the RSCCE Database Engineer and Front…
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Cyber Software Engineer
Huntington Ingalls Industries
Annapolis Junction, MD
Mission Technologies is looking for a Cyber Software Engineer to join our cutting-edge Cyber and Intelligence Team. In this role, you will dive deep into mission-critical systems, driving…
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Staff Systems Engineer - I&T
Northrop Grumman
Baltimore, MD
Northrop Grumman Mission Systems' Baltimore and Partnered Sites (BaPs) division is seeking a Staff Systems Integration & Test (SI&T) Engineers in Baltimore, MD to support test and…
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Principal / Sr. Principal Systems Engineer – I&T
Northrop Grumman
Baltimore, MD
Northrop Grumman Mission Systems' Baltimore and Partnered Sites (BaPs) division is seeking a Systems Integration & Test (SI&T) Engineers (Level 3 or Level 4) in Baltimore, MD to support…
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Product Design Engineer, Data Center Engineering, Electrical Products and Services
Amazon Data Services, Inc.
Austin, TX · Atlanta, GA · Columbus, OH · Herndon, VA · Chicago, IL
We are seeking a Design Engineer with an Electrical Engineering background with hands-on experience in new product design and development of electrical power distribution equipment and…
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Space Vehicle Production Engineer
SAIC
Chantilly, VA
This position is for a Space Vehicle Production Engineer in Chantilly, VA supporting cutting-edge and innovative space programs. The Space Vehicle Production Engineer will work daily…
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Systems Engineer 4
PDS Defense
El Segundo, CA
- $94 to $99 USD / hour
The Space Communications Payload Systems Engineer is part of a high-performing team that is immersed in highly complex development projects. As a member of our team, you will have the…
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Lead GNC Engineer – Flight Simulation
Mavensoft Technologies, LLC.
Chandler, AZ
…(6‐DOF) simulations, defining performance metrics, integrating hardware and software components, and conducting rigorous performance assessments and trade…
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GNC Engineer - Modeling, Simulation
Mavensoft Technologies, LLC.
Chandler, AZ
…metrics, designing and implementing solutions, and integrating hardware and software components to help ensure system reliability and mission…
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Test Engineer
Hadrian Automation
Torrance, CA
- $135,000 to $220,000 USD / year
Hadrian is building autonomous factories to reindustrialize America. By combining AI, advanced software, robotics, and full-stack manufacturing, we help aerospace and defense companies…
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Software Engineering Lead
EarthOptics
Raleigh, NC
Our Software Engineering Lead will join our Software Engineering team as an individual contributor, helping build and maintain software that connects field applications, laboratory…
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Robotics Systems Engineer
Skild AI
San Mateo, CA
Partner with ML research engineers, mechanical design teams, and manufacturing technicians to turn software performance goals into hardware requirements and physical test fixtures.
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Engineer I - Software
Microchip - USA
CA
- $70,304 to $143,000 USD / year
The Microchip FPGA Software Engineering team delivers a comprehensive software suite for designing Microchip’s FPGAs and managing the entire design flow from entry, to synthesis, through…
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Systems Integration Engineer
AMERICAN SYSTEMS
Arlington, VA
- $130,000 to $150,000 USD / year
5-7 years of related experience in systems engineering, systems integration, hardware/software integration and test, or mission-system development.

Generalist

Forward Deployed Engineer

Somerville, MA, United States

$150,000 to $200,000 USD / year

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Pay: $150,000 to $200,000 USD / year
Posting language: English
Posted: Nov 4, 2026

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ABOUT GENERALIST

At Generalist, we are on a mission to build general intelligence for the physical world and make it useful to everyone. We believe the industries and homes of the future will depend on humans and machines working together in new ways. Robots can help us build more and get more done.

We build embodied foundation models, starting with a focus on dexterity. This requires advancing the frontiers of data, models, and hardware, to enable robots to intelligently interact with the physical world.

The company embraces both large-scale AI and robotics as core to its DNA. Our team of researchers, roboticists, and company builders come from OpenAI, Boston Dynamics, Google DeepMind, and other frontier labs - with a track record of shipping AI breakthroughs. Before Generalist, we pioneered large embodied multimodal models and vision-language-action models (PaLM-E, https://research.google/blog/palm-e-an-embodied-multimodal-language-model/ RT-2 https://deepmind.google/blog/rt-2-new-model-translates-vision-and-language-into-action/, Gemini Robotics https://deepmind.google/models/gemini-robotics/), launched and scaled ChatGPT https://chatgpt.com/ and GPT-4 https://openai.com/index/gpt-4-research/ to hundreds of millions of users, engineered the foundations of autonomous driving, built next-generation robots (Atlas https://bostondynamics.com/atlas/, Spot https://bostondynamics.com/products/spot/, Stretch https://bostondynamics.com/products/stretch/) and pushed the limits of what they can do (from parkour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF4DML7FIWk to manipulation https://bostondynamics.com/blog/large-behavior-models-atlas-find-new-footing/, and testing robustness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFuA50H9uek).

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

Generalist is building AI that enables robots to do useful work in the physical world. As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you will turn that technology into working customer deployments, owning the engineering from understanding a workflow and designing an integration to deploying software, debugging robot behavior, and helping customers get started.

You will be one of Generalist’s first Forward Deployed Engineers and help build the foundation of the function. Alongside delivering our earliest deployments, you will shape how we scope technical work, measure success, diagnose failures, and turn what we learn at one customer into tools and practices the whole team can use.

This is a hands-on cross-functional engineering role. You will write and ship code, work directly with robot hardware and customer systems, and collaborate closely with our research, engineering, operations, and partnerships teams. You should enjoy moving between a customer conversation, a system design, and a debugging session, staying accountable until the system works in practice.

YOU'LL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR:

Owning the technical delivery of customer deployments, from understanding requirements and defining success criteria through integration, software rollout, onboarding, live debugging in the field, and ongoing improvement.
Designing and building software integrations that connect Generalist’s systems with customer APIs, applications, and workflows, with attention to reliability and maintainability.
Designing robot tasks and evaluation workflows, examining rollout data, and refining tasks when performance in the real world falls short of expectations.
Debugging across software, integrations, robot behavior, and the operating environment. Use logs, observations, and focused experiments to isolate problems, implement fixes, and verify results.
Working directly with customers to understand constraints, explain technical tradeoffs, and communicate progress clearly. Bring in the right specialists when needed while retaining ownership of the outcome.
Turning deployment experience into reusable tooling, documentation, diagnostics, and playbooks, and proposed system improvements that make each subsequent deployment easier and more reliable.

YOU MIGHT THRIVE IN THIS ROLE IF YOU:

Have built and shipped production software and can independently take a technical problem from an ambiguous requirement to a tested, working solution.
Have strong software engineering fundamentals and experience designing integrations across APIs, services, or complex systems. You can explain your design choices and reason through failure modes.
Debug methodically: establish what should happen, gather evidence about what actually happened, test hypotheses, and check that a fix addresses the underlying problem.
Enjoy working directly with customers and users. You ask good questions, translate their needs into engineering work, and explain complex issues clearly without making promises the system cannot support.
Learn unfamiliar technical domains quickly and are curious about machine learning, robotics, and the gap between a successful demonstration and reliable operation.
Take ownership in an early-stage environment, create structure where it is missing, and balance immediate customer needs with improvements that will serve future deployments.
Are excited to work hands-on with robots and customer teams, including time at customer sites.

Experience in robotics, machine learning, or deploying complex software in customer environments is a plus. Strong software engineers who are eager to learn robotics are encouraged to apply.

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