Software Engineer: Frontend

Generalist • Somerville, MA

11h

About The Position

Generalist is seeking a Frontend Engineer to build interfaces that make advanced robotics intuitive and useful. The work will help researchers understand model behavior, operators manage robot fleets, and customers build with the company’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 how interfaces feel and how they are built.

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 and make it easier for others to extend.
• 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 advanced 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.
• Translate 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 so complex workflows are 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed