# Principal Robotic Controls Engineer

About the Role Join a defense technology team developing autonomous directed-energy systems. As the senior technical anchor for controls, you will shape precision pointing and tracking architecture, from theory and simulation through real-world hardware testing. What You'll Do Design control architecture for coarse gimbals and fine steering mirrors, including bandwidth allocation, multi-rate operation, and stage handoffs. Develop Kalman, interacting multiple model, and nonlinear filters that fuse radar, EO/IR, and inertial data into latency-compensated aimpoint estimates. Build line-of-sight stabilization and jitter-rejection methods, including inertial stabilization, feedforward, and adaptive or notch filtering for structural modes. Allocate pointing error budgets across jitter, bias, latency, and atmospheric effects, then validate precision performance against dynamic targets in field tests. Model plants and identify system dynamics for gimbals, mirrors, and structures, using simulation and hardware-in-the-loop validation. Analyze stability and robustness under disturbances and parameter variation, and integrate controls with tracking, engagement sequencing, and safety logic

- **Id**: 3882845
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/clera-principal-robotic-controls-engineer>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T18:06:54Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T05:04:14Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2460
- **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**: 39
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 6
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Salary

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

## Technologies

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

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: phd
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T18:41:15Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: no; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 47; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Offered visa sponsorship in 47 of its adverts here in 24 months; Filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 38
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.379
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 6
- **Reasons**: conf:1, agency, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Pay

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

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