Robotics Controls Engineer

About the Role:

Our client a leader in developing innovative android technology is seeking a Senior Robotics Controls Engineer. In this role you will be responsible for developing the realtime software stack that enables their advanced hardware to manipulate and locomote through various environments efficiently and elegantly. This handson position involves everything from lowlevel motor control to wholebody dynamic control and estimation for locomanipulation. Your goal will be to simplify the complexity of a high DoF series of sensors actuators transmissions and links allowing the humanoid robot to be controlled via highlevel APIs used by teleoperation and AI engines.

Why This Job is Exciting:

Be the first user of new hardware playing a key role in hardware design and sensor evaluation.

Test your controls software on over 30 humanoids operating 24/7 inhouse.

Your software will eventually run on thousands of humanoids performing tasks globally.

Collaborate with hardware firmware AI platforms and production teams to build the world s safest and most capable humanoid robot.

Work with a 50 DoF biped with hands driven by motors designed and manufactured inhouse.

Controls Team Responsibilities:

Develop humanoid controls algorithms for balancing locomotion and manipulation.

Design efficient state estimation algorithms.

Perform system identification and calibration of actuators transmissions and fullbody kinematics.

Integrate hardware and evaluate sensors.

Develop tools for hardware bringup and debugging.

Create software for robot health monitoring visualization and logging.

Build and maintain APIs for other parts of the software stack to command the robots.

Requirements:

MustHaves:

Graduate degree in Robotics Mechanical/Electrical Engineering Computer Science or a related field.

3 years of practical experience deploying and debugging controls and estimation software on high DoF robots.

Solid understanding of rigid body dynamics linear algebra and numerical optimization.

Familiarity with optimizationbased whole body control EKFbased state estimators or model predictive control for legged systems.

Proficiency in working with large C codebases in a Linux development environment.

Familiarity with modern software development practices source control and testing methodologies.

Qualities Were Looking For:

Excellent intuition for how controls software impacts robot behavior.

Enjoy handson work with hardware as much as software R&D.

Extreme care for how your software impacts teleoperation production deployment and servicing in the field.

Perseverance and attention to detail.

NiceToHaves:

Experience with Java Unity/C# Python realtime Linux ROS2 and DDS.

Experience writing embedded C for interfacing with sensors or actuators.

Familiarity with the Yocto OS build system.

Passion for building and tinkering with robots in your spare time.

Requirements

Requirements:

MustHaves:

Graduate degree in Robotics Mechanical/Electrical Engineering Computer Science or a related field.

3 years of practical experience deploying and debugging controls and estimation software on high DoF robots.

Solid understanding of rigid body dynamics linear algebra and numerical optimization.

Familiarity with optimizationbased whole body control EKFbased state estimators or model predictive control for legged systems.

Proficiency in working with large C codebases in a Linux development environment.

Familiarity with modern software development practices source control and testing methodologies.

Qualities Were Looking For:

Excellent intuition for how controls software impacts robot behavior.

Enjoy handson work with hardware as much as software R&D.

Extreme care for how your software impacts teleoperation production deployment and servicing in the field.

Perseverance and attention to detail.

NiceToHaves:

Experience with Java Unity/C# Python realtime Linux ROS2 and DDS.

Experience writing embedded C for interfacing with sensors or actuators.

Familiarity with the Yocto OS build system.

Passion for building and tinkering with robots in your spare time.