# Senior Robotics Engineer, Controls

About the Role Join a small engineering team developing autonomous directed-energy systems in the defense sector. As a senior individual contributor, you will own the precision motion control stack, helping deliver reliable pointing and tracking performance on real hardware. What You'll Do Architect and tune precision pointing and tracking control loops, including closed-loop sensor-to-actuator control at hundreds of hertz. Develop state estimation and sensor fusion using IMU, encoder, and vision feedback. Identify and model gimbal, mount, and actuator dynamics, then compensate for resonance, friction, backlash, and saturation. Build simulation and hardware-in-the-loop infrastructure to develop and validate controls. Characterize system performance on hardware and in field tests, and document controls standards and tuning practices. What We're Looking For At least 4 years of robotics experience, including hands-on design and tuning of closed-loop controllers on motion hardware. Strong grounding in classical and state-space controls, including LQR and MPC, plus practical state estimation using Kalman-family or complementary filters. Experience with system identification, freq

- **Id**: 3882871
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/clera-senior-robotics-engineer-controls-3>
- **Role**: Robotics
- **Role family**: Robotics
- **Seniority**: senior
- **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**: 4
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T17:04:59Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T09:57:43Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 1841
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Military

## 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**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 180000
- **Max**: 200000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 200000

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **MATLAB** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Sensor Fusion** — Optional: no
- **Simulink** — Optional: no

## Trust

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

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: 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: 51; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Offered visa sponsorship in 51 of its adverts here in 24 months; Filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 29
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.328
- **P room**: 0.9
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 6
- **Reasons**: conf:0, agency, stale_co, velocity, win:mid, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 200000
- **Is top pay**: no

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