# Principal Robotic Controls Engineer

About the Role Own the controls and estimation architecture for a precision laser beam director within a defense technology team. You will take algorithms from modeling and simulation through embedded hardware and field testing, helping deliver accurate tracking against dynamic targets. What You'll Do Design the control architecture for coarse gimbals and fine steering mirrors, including bandwidth allocation, multi-rate design, and stage handoffs. Develop estimators that fuse radar, EO/IR, and inertial data into predicted aimpoints, with latency compensation. Implement line-of-sight stabilization and jitter rejection using inertial stabilization, accelerometer feedforward, and adaptive filtering. Build and manage pointing error budgets across jitter, bias, latency, and atmospheric effects, then validate precision against moving targets in the field. Model plants and identify system dynamics in time and frequency domains, validating models through hardware-in-the-loop testing. Analyze robustness, stability margins, sensitivity, and performance under disturbances and parameter variation. Integrate fire-control handoffs, engagement sequencing, dwell maintenance, and safety inter

- **Id**: 4277309
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/clera-principal-robotic-controls-engineer-2>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Los Lunas, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T17:22:18Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T19:23:38Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2870
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 2706
- **Name**: Clera
- **Domain**: getclera.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/clera>
- **Size band**: 11-50
- **Is staffing agency**: yes
- **Employer type**: agency
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 80
- **Open postings**: 40
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 6
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 250000
- **Max**: 315000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 315000

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **MATLAB** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **RTOS** — Optional: no
- **Simulink** — Optional: no
- **SLI/SLO/SLA** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T19:23:38Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: no; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 48; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Offered visa sponsorship in 48 of its adverts here in 24 months; Filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 52
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.516
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 6
- **Reasons**: conf:1, agency, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T21:16:59Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 315000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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