Senior Software Engineer, GenAI Frontend

Intrinsic•Mountain View, CA

About The Position

Intrinsic is an AI robotics group at Google aiming to reimagine the potential of industrial robotics. Our team believes that advances in AI, perception and simulation will redefine what’s possible for industrial robotics in the near future – with software and data at the core. Our mission is to make industrial robotics intelligent, accessible, and usable for millions more businesses, entrepreneurs, and developers. We are a dynamic team of engineers, roboticists, designers, and technologists who are passionate about unlocking the creative and economic potential of industrial robotics. Role Intrinsic provides an end-to-end robotics platform and Flowstate (www.intrinsic.ai/flowstate) as its primary interface. External users use Flowstate to create, deploy and maintain robotics solutions . Flowstate is primarily an authoring tool; creating or editing a Flowstate solution includes authoring digital workcells, robot processes, robot skills, and hardware configurations. Flowstate workflows are via a graphical web interface or via a programmatic interface (i.e. SDK). The Intrinsic R&D team is exploring the use of AI, and LLM Agents in particular, to generate and maintain robotics solutions from natural language, multi-modal conversational prompts. These novel workflows can significantly improve the accessibility of Flowstate. We believe that adding a conversational experience to the Intrinsic platform will lower barriers to entry to robotics and empower a much wider range of users, including those for whom automation is currently infeasible. How your work moves the mission forward We see this role contributing in the following three areas, roughly ordered by increasing levels of technical difficulty, leadership, and scope. Conversational experience prototype : You will develop a web. application given initial mocks and backend services. This application will allow users to author a robot solution from multi-modal prompts. In the short term you will contribute towards an in-progress research prototype. In the long term you will drive the conversion of this prototype into a production-grade application. Conversational experience prototype : You will develop a web. application given initial mocks and backend services. This application will allow users to author a robot solution from multi-modal prompts. In the short term you will contribute towards an in-progress research prototype. In the long term you will drive the conversion of this prototype into a production-grade application. Bespoke frontends for robotics : We believe generative AI enables all users to rapidly generate individually customized web experiences. As a long-term research project, you will build a frontend that can be customized via conversational prompts and composed of pre-existing (and AI-generated) web components, all backed by the end-to-end Intrinsic platform. This is a hands-on role : your day-to-day work will involve planning and roadmapping a greenfield project while also spending the majority of your time designing, developing, and iterating on code. Your technical leadership and developer skills will be necessary to scope projects and to deliver them in phases. You will work closely with a sub-team within Intrinsic R&D, but will also frequently collaborate with other engineering, product, and UX groups within Intrinsic.

Requirements

6+ years of experience launching and iterating on large web frontends.
Proficiency with TypeScript and at least one popular framework/library (Angular, React, Lit, etc.).
Leading large technical projects with multiple stakeholders, while making practical trade-offs and phased deliverables, and documenting best practices.
Proficiency with browser-native technologies and infrastructure (e.g. web workers, safely hosting user data/code, client-side AI in Chrome).
Experience using LLMs for structured content generation.

Nice To Haves

Strong interest in improving the accessibility of robotics, especially for automated manufacturing.
Past or current research experience (PhD in Computer Science or equivalent), especially in building innovative interfaces.
Startup (or similar) experience --- building the 0 to 1 in a rapidly changing technical landscape.

Responsibilities

Develop a web application given initial mocks and backend services to allow users to author a robot solution from multi-modal prompts.
Contribute towards an in-progress research prototype for a conversational experience.
Drive the conversion of the conversational experience prototype into a production-grade application.
Build a frontend that can be customized via conversational prompts and composed of pre-existing (and AI-generated) web components, backed by the end-to-end Intrinsic platform.
Plan and roadmap a greenfield project.
Design, develop, and iterate on code.
Scope projects and deliver them in phases.
Collaborate with other engineering, product, and UX groups within Intrinsic.