What you'll doWe're looking for a seasoned controls engineer to own control quality across our robotic products through best-in-class, modern engineering practices. In this role, you will operate at the boundary between hardware and software - the layer between electrical engineering and motion planning - working closely with electrical, firmware, and higher-level software teams to deliver smooth, reliable, and precisely characterized motion.
This role is onsite at our Glen Cove, NY headquarters a minimum of 3 days per week.
Responsibilities- Own control performance across our products: smooth motion, tracking accuracy, and high-fidelity impedance control
- Design and own control-loop benchmarking and validation - loop rates, synchronization jitter, tracking error - across communication architectures such as CAN and EtherCAT
- Analytically model in-house actuator Motor -> Gearbox -> Feedback Plants, verify model through physical testing, and determine appropriate Plant tolerance bands for production that maintains model fidelity.
- Implement and document safety-rated monitoring and stop functions to certification rigor
- Ensure maximal servo performance while maintaining stability and rejecting disturbances and suppressing vibration under a broad range of dynamic loading conditions.
- Debug complex system-level issues where root cause may span software, firmware, electrical, or component behavior
- Build test and diagnostic tooling for tuning, hardware characterization, and fault injection
- Act as a technical bridge between hardware and software, advising leadership on technical strategy and mentoring engineers across teams
Software Stack and Ownership AreasThe Controls & Firmware group focuses on foundational technologies including motor and actuator control, embedded communications, system health monitoring/logging, and hardware bring-up.
Tech Stack- MCUs: STM32
- Languages: C / C++, MATLAB/Simulink
- RTOS: FreeRTOS or similar
- Communications: CAN, EtherCAT
- Supporting Systems: Linux, modern CI/CD tooling
Who you areWe're looking for engineers who are self-driven, optimistic, creative, and resourceful - excited to apply deep controls expertise to a new class of robotic products.
Skills you'll bring- Controls Depth: Strong classical controls fundamentals -analytical and heuristic tuning, plant and controller modelling, gain and phase margin analysis, bandwidth modelling and testing - along with real-time signal processing and filtering
- Cross-Domain Fluency: Enough understanding of firmware, electrical, and mechanical systems to find and resolve issues at the borders between them
- Experience:5+ years of proven experience modelling control systems, tuning control loops on real-world systems, and validating models through physical experiments on benchtop equipment
- Clarity of Communication: You excel in written and verbal communication and enjoy leveraging your skills to support your peers
- Impact Driven: You relentlessly seek user impact and value execution over technical idealism
- Proactive Simplicity: You prioritize simplicity, reliability, and velocity and proactively identify opportunities to improve incumbent systems
Nice to have- Experience with modern control techniques like MPC
- Experience with sensors, especially encoders, and sensor fusion
- Experience interfacing with robotic motion planning systems
- Electrical and board-level experience - comfort with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and DMMs to diagnose timing, signaling, and electrical issues
