We are building an elite robotics team to solve **real-time, high-accuracy manipulation** - making a robot arm and end-effector do precise physical work in the real world, from live sensor feedback, on platforms that are never perfectly calibrated. We are looking for an exceptional hands-on engineer to own the control-and-estimation heart of that system: the closed loop that turns what the robot senses into accurate motion, in real time, robustly, on real hardware - and to set its technical direction as it grows. **What you'll do** - Own the real-time closed loop from sensing to motion, hands-on: state estimation, feedback and predictive control, and the correction of end-effector trajectories to hit accuracy targets under uncertainty, noise and latency. - Make hard, honest engineering calls about what can and cannot be estimated from the available sensing, and design systems that know their own uncertainty and fail safely. - Build robust hard-real-time software that runs reliably on physical robots, not just in simulation. - Set the technical direction toward learning-based and whole-body control. **Who You Are** - Deep, first-principles real-time control and state estimation - model-predictive control, Kalman/particle/moving-horizon estimation, observability analysis. - Manipulation robotics - arm kinematics and dynamics, trajectory generation and correction, coordinate frames, hand-eye and extrinsic calibration. - Sensor-guided motion / visual servoing - closed perception-to-control loops on real hardware (vision- or sensor-guided manipulation) - Track record of real-time robotic systems, built and run on hardware. - Depth in robot perception - geometric/model-based vision, 3D sensing, point-cloud registration, calibration - to define what your control loop needs from perception and to reason about how perception error propagates into motion. - Modern, production C++ for real-time systems. - ROS / ROS 2 and the discipline of hard-real-time software - deterministic loops, timing budgets, buffered concurrency, thread-safety, debugging on real hardware. **Why You'll Love It Here** - Daily free lunch to keep you fueled and connected with the team - Flexible PTO so you can take the time you need, when you need it - Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage - 6 weeks fully paid parental leave, plus an additional 6-8 weeks for birthing parents (12-14 weeks total) - 401(k) retirement plan through Empower - Generous employee referral bonuses-help us grow our team!