Software Engineer: Frontend
About The Position
Generalist is building embodied foundation models to help robots intelligently interact with the physical world. The company combines large-scale AI and robotics, with a team whose experience includes research, robotics, and product development at frontier labs and technology companies. The Frontend Engineer builds interfaces that make advanced robotics intuitive and useful. The work supports researchers understanding model behavior, operators managing robot fleets, and customers building with Generalist’s foundation model. The role owns frontend development from early prototypes through production applications and works closely with design, product, and infrastructure teams. It calls for strong engineering fundamentals and thoughtful product judgment, with attention to both usability and implementation quality.
Requirements
- Experience shipping and maintaining production web applications using TypeScript, React, and modern frontend tooling.
- Strong opinions about shared component libraries and UI patterns, with good judgment about what to standardize and where flexibility matters.
- Strong frontend architecture fundamentals, including clear component boundaries, explicit application state, and the ability to simplify complex code so others can extend it.
- Experience managing asynchronous data and user interactions, including keeping interfaces accurate and usable during background updates, slow requests, and failures.
- Clear communication and a collaborative approach to working across engineering, design, and product.
Nice To Haves
- Experience building tools for robotics, AI, scientific computing, or other technically complex domains.
- Experience with real-time interfaces, streaming data, or event-driven systems.
- Experience keeping data-intensive interfaces fast, including large tables, interactive visualizations, and videos.
- Experience consolidating UI patterns and incrementally modernizing an existing frontend while continuing to ship product improvements.
- Interest in developing frontend developer tooling, such as component previews or useful end-to-end or browser tests.
- Experience with browser performance profiling, frontend observability, and automated testing.
Responsibilities
- Build web applications for robot monitoring, data exploration, model training and evaluation, and internal tooling.
- Turn complex technical requirements into clear, responsive interfaces that help users make decisions and take action.
- Develop interactive visualizations for robot telemetry, video, experiment results, and system health.
- Shape frontend architecture to make complex workflows easy to understand, test, and extend as the product grows.
- Establish a cohesive design system across the research platform and robot operator interfaces, including shared components, styles, and interaction patterns.
- Work directly with researchers, operators, and customers to understand workflows, test ideas, and improve the product based on feedback.
- Improve the frontend development experience through clear conventions, reusable patterns, and tooling that helps engineers build consistent features quickly.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
