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Robotics Controls Engineer

US, Boston, MA💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-21 → 2026-09-25

Core

Build and own testing/validation infrastructure (HIL, integration workflows) and observability tools for a humanoid robot control stack to ensure repeatability, accuracy, and failure analysis.

Role type

Controls Engineer (Robotics)

Builds

Humanoid robot control stack (HMND-01 Alpha)

Domain

Robotics, Control Systems, Hardware-in-the-loop testing

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Control theory (joint-space, PID, feedforward, impedance/admittance, observers, state estimation), Modern C++ (real-time), Python (test harnesses), Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing, Measurement and data analysis, Debugging across software/firmware/hardware boundaries

Preferred skills

Physics simulation (MuJoCo, Isaac Sim), Observability tooling (logging, tracing, time-series databases), First-time hardware bring-up, Release management

Technologies

C++, Python, HIL, MuJoCo, Isaac Sim, Grafana

Responsibilities

Build and own HIL and integration test workflows; Define repeatability and accuracy metrics; Develop automated regression checks; Contribute to first-time bring-up of new hardware; Instrument controls stack for observability; Write engineering documentation and runbooks

Seniority

Mid-Senior, hands-on IC

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