Benjamin Bolte
Engineer at OpenAI
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Bolte is an engineer with 12 years of experience building advanced robotics and AI systems, currently contributing to AGI development at OpenAI. He founded and led K-Scale Labs to prototype an open-source humanoid robot that generated over $2M in pre-orders within 18 months, demonstrating rare end-to-end hardware and product execution. Prior roles include robotics research at Meta, perception and transformer training at Tesla under Andrej Karpathy, and production ML work at Facebook/FAIR where he shipped the first transformer for hate-speech detection and optimized CUDA kernels. Comfortable moving between research and production, he frequently implements low-level CUDA and system work to accelerate models into deployment. Based in Mountain View with a BS in Mathematics and Computer Science from Emory, he frames his mission as pushing humanity up the Kardashev scale—ambitious engineering aimed at large-scale impact. An experimental maker at heart, he pivoted from no-hardware background to leading a hardware startup, showing a rapid learning curve and product-first mindset.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Y CombinatorBachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics and Computer Science at Emory University
Chinese, Spanish
Github Skills (122)
python10
simulator10
gymnasium10
generative10
deep-learning10
gpu10
in-app-purchase10
gpu-acceleration10
robotics10
intel10
acceleration10
numpy10
3d-models10
sdk10
ctc10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
kscalelabs/actuator
Sep 2024 - Feb 2025
A repository for controlling actuators
Contributions:9 reviews, 63 PRs, 154 pushes in 4 months
kscalelabs/ksim
Feb 2025 - Apr 2025
K-Scale simulation training library
Contributions:5 releases, 40 reviews, 144 PRs in 1 month
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