Greg Brockman, co-founder and president of OpenAI, forwarded a message that he was recruiting hardware engineers, officially announcing that OpenAI has joined Physical robot track.

The project is led by newly joined former Meta AR and VR leader Caitlin Kalinowski, who is recruiting electrical engineering sensing engineers, physical robot mechanical design engineers and TPM managers.

The recruitment information and conditions have been announced on the official website. The salary and benefits are quite good, with a starting salary of US$360,000 (approximately 2.6 million yuan). Equity, 24 weeks of paid maternity leave and 20 weeks of paid childcare leave are also provided. , as well as various medical insurance and study subsidies, etc.

In fact, at the end of December last year, The Information revealed that OpenAI was going to develop actual robots, but the internal information was not officially made public.

OpenAI is a global leader in the research and development of generative AI, especially the o3 model just shown, which basically opens the door to AGI (artificial general intelligence). In terms of hardware robots, it is a layman and cannot be compared with Tesla, 1X, and Figure AI in the short term.

However, with cutting-edge models such as o3, it has broken through the research and development of one of the most difficult parts of physical robots, the "brain". In fact, OpenAI has provided GPT models for many start-up physical robots. Therefore, seeing the robot track becoming more and more popular, OpenAI also wants to try to get a piece of the cake.

According to OpenAI’s recruitment profile, our robotics team focuses on implementing general robotics and is committed to moving toward AGI-level intelligence in dynamic real-world environments.

We work across the entire model stack, integrating state-of-the-art hardware and software to explore various robot morphologies. Our goal is to seamlessly blend high-level AI capabilities with practical constraints in the physical world.

In a simple sentence, OpenAI wants to integrate the most powerful AI model into a hardware robot to create a physical AGI.

Caitlin, the former Meta AR and VR leader who just joined OpenAI two months ago, also announced recruitment news.

The first position is an electrical engineering sensing engineer who will help design robots Required sensor kit.

The second position is a robot mechanical design engineer, which requires experience in designing gears, drives, motors and robot connecting rods.

The third position is TPM Manager. This is an interesting and flexible position. The initial work content will include product technical project management, setting up a training laboratory, and ensuring the efficient operation of the team during the product design phase.

The requirements for recruiters are not low: those with at least 8 years of experience in consumer or industrial electronic equipmentWorking experience, including at least 2 years of experience in designing robot hardware components and systems;

At least 2 years of experience in designing robot hardware components and systems; Have direct practical experience in mechanical design, focusing on actuators, Design of motors, gears and mechanical limbs;

Familiar with design for manufacturability (DFM), design for assembly (DFA), statistical tolerance analysis technology, CTF dimensioning and geometric tolerance analysis; proficient in 3D in mainstream design tools CAD software and basic strength analysis capabilities.

Have excellent technical communication skills and be able to communicate effectively with engineers, software engineers and cross-functional partners (XFN). OpenAI must have such high requirements because it wants to create competitive robot products in a short period of time.

Some netizens said that OpenAI is developing a physical robot, which is a big deal~

The physical ChatGPT robot will be coming soon.

Developing physical robots is really exciting and looking forward to it!

Exciting times in the field of robotics are coming! The intersection of AI and hardware is where the future will be built. Like navigate_ai, innovation is all about putting control back into people's hands - imagine the possibilities when we combine intelligent systems with powerful technology!

This move was very wise. Although it was a little late, it was better than not doing it at all.

Any AI company that pursues super intelligence but does not get involved in the field of robotics is doing useless work. The main goal of humanoid robots should be maximum interaction with intelligent humans trying to solve difficult problems. This is the way to achieve super intelligence.

About Caitlin Kalinowski

Currently, OpenAI has assigned Caitlin the responsibility for developing physical robots.

Caitlin began her early career at Apple as a hardware engineer and participated in the design and development of multiple MacBook models. Her focus was on improving product user experience and design innovation, which laid a solid foundation for her subsequent career.

While at Apple, he participated in the design of multiple MacBook Pro and MacBook Air models. These products have won wide recognition in the market for their excellent performance and beautiful design.

After leaving Apple, Caitlin joined Meta as the leader of the hardware team. During her nine years at Meta, she led the hardware team of the VR headset Oculus and promoted the development and popularization of VR technology. Under her leadership, Oculus VR headsets became one of the most popular VR devices on the market, providing users with an immersive virtual reality experience.

Also leads Meta’s AR glasses teamteam, responsible for the development of the Orion AR prototype project. Project Orion demonstrates Meta's ambitions in the field of augmented reality, aiming to seamlessly integrate virtual information with the real world through advanced technology. Under her supervision, a prototype of Orion smart glasses was unveiled at Meta’s annual Connect conference, attracting huge attention from the industry.

Subsequently, Caitlin left Meta to join OpenAI. At first, people speculated that OpenAI also wanted to build AI glasses or headsets, but now it seems that they are physical robots.