Robotics & Control Engineer

Rhoda AI

$100K — $150K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of experience in robotic control software or related field
  • Strong software engineering skills in C++, Python, or Rust
  • Hands-on robotics control experience: motion planning, control loops, state estimation
  • Familiarity with ROS/ROS2 in practical applications
  • Ability to debug across the entire stack from hardware drivers to control systems
  • Comfort with physical hardware in dynamic environments

Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain onboard control software including control loops, state estimation, and actuator interfaces
  • Implement and tune motion planning and control systems such as trajectory optimization
  • Collaborate with AI/ML team to integrate learned control policies onto hardware
  • Contribute to enhancing system reliability and fault detection
  • Debug deviations between simulated and real robot behavior
  • Support new hardware revisions during bring-up and field testing

Benefits

  • High ownership within a small, agile team
  • Direct impact of your code on robot functionality
  • Opportunity to work at the intersection of hardware and AI
  • Involvement in the development of next-generation humanoid robots
Full Job Description
We9re looking for a Robot Control Engineer to develop and maintain the control systems that run on our humanoid robots. You9ll own the software that connects hardware to behavior - from low-level control loops and actuator interfaces to state estimation and real-world deployment.

What You9ll 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 We9re Looking For
  • 1+ 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

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