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Caitlin Kalinowski

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Member of Technical Staff, Research at Anthropic

🇺🇸 American

Kalinowski is a hardware leader who helped design Mac hardware at Apple, scaled Meta’s AR/VR organization behind Quest, Rift and Orion, and built OpenAI’s robotics and consumer-hardware team. Her work spans product design, physical AI and large technical organizations.

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Background

Current role
Member of Technical Staff, Research 2026-present
Previously
Aug 2024-2026Member of Technical Staff; Robotics and Consumer Hardware Lead,
2022-2024Head of AR Glasses Hardware,
Product Design Engineer,
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Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.

Last editorial review: August 16, 2026

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moveCaitlin Kalinowski joins Anthropic after leaving OpenAI

The veteran Apple and Meta hardware leader now lists a research role on Anthropic’s technical staff.

August 16, 2026

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