Founding Robotics Engineer at General Astronautics

General Astronautics is building autonomous dexterous robotic arms for microgravity environments. Our systems enable orbital science and manufacturing that isn't possible on Earth, and we're doing it without humans in the loop. We're looking for a Founding Robotics Engineer to own the full robotics stack: controls, perception, software, and simulation. You will guide how our arm thinks, sees, and moves, and ensure that behavior is validated in simulation before it ever reaches orbit. Responsibilities Own the robotics software stack from low-level control through high-level autonomy Design and implement motion planning, trajectory generation, and real-time control systems for a dexterous robotic arm in microgravity Develop and maintain simulation environments in NVIDIA Isaac Sim for algorithm validation, hardware-in-the-loop testing, and operator training Build perception pipelines using cameras, depth sensors, and other modalities to enable object localization, manipulation planning, and environment understanding Architect the controls and software framework for autonomous task execution, grasping, assembly, manipulation, without human intervention Integrate with vision-language-ac