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Robotics

Bay Area💼 Full-time🗓 2026-04-30 → 2026-09-25

Core

Design, implement, and optimize embedded control stacks, motion planning, and state estimation pipelines for general-purpose robots.

Role type

Senior IC robotics control systems engineer

Builds

Embedded control software and robust software frameworks for physical robots

Domain

Robotics (general-purpose, dynamic locomotion, manipulation)

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Control systems engineering, dynamics, kinematics, optimal control, state estimation, C++, hardware interfaces, sensor integration, actuation technologies, simulation-to-hardware iteration

Preferred skills

Humanoid robot experience, whole-body control systems, published work in control theory/mathematical optimization, GPU parallel computation

Technologies

C++, nonlinear MPC, convex optimization, trajectory optimization, IMUs, F/T sensors, motors, gearboxes, drivers, GPUs

Responsibilities

Design and optimize embedded control stacks; develop motion planning and trajectory optimization algorithms; build real-time state estimation pipelines; formulate and solve optimal control problems; build modular software frameworks for simulation-hardware iteration; lead debugging and validation on physical robots

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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