We're looking for a Robot Control Engineer to develop and maintain the control systems that run on our humanoid robots. You'll own the software that connects hardware to behavior - from low-level control loops and actuator interfaces to state estimation and real-world deployment.
What You'll Do- Develop and maintain onboard control software including control loops, state estimation, and actuator interfaces
- Implement and tune motion planning and control systems - including whole-body control, trajectory optimization, or model predictive control
- Collaborate with the AI/ML team to integrate learned control policies onto real hardware reliably and efficiently
- Contribute to system reliability, fault detection, and recovery logic for robust real-world operation
- Work directly with prototype hardware, debugging discrepancies between simulated and real behavior and iterating on both
- Support bring-up and field testing of new hardware revisions
What We're Looking For- 4+ years of experience building control software for robotic systems or a closely related field
- Strong software engineering fundamentals in C++, Python, or Rust
- Hands-on experience with core robotics control: motion planning, control loops, state estimation, or actuator interfaces
- Experience with ROS/ROS2 or similar robotics middleware in production or research contexts
- Ability to debug across the full stack - from driver-level issues to control behavior on live hardware
- Comfort working directly with physical hardware in fast-moving, ambiguous environments
Nice to Have (But Not Required)- Background in whole-body control, trajectory optimization, or model predictive control
- Experience building sim-to-real pipelines for reinforcement learning or imitation learning policy training
- Familiarity with humanoid or legged robot platforms and the unique modeling challenges they present
- Exposure to learned perception or control models and their integration into real-time robot stacks
- Prior work on early-stage hardware programs (prototype or pre-production robots)
Why This Role- Your code runs on the robot - the control software you write has a direct, physical impact on what our humanoids can do in the real world
- Work at the boundary of hardware and AI, integrating state-of-the-art control and learned policies onto real robotic systems
- High ownership in a small, fast-moving team where your contributions shape how the next generation of humanoid robots operate in production
