# Senior Robotics Engineer, Controls

About the Role Join a small engineering team developing autonomous systems in the defense technology sector. As a senior individual contributor, you will own the precision motion controls stack, from control-loop architecture and state estimation to integration and validation on real hardware. What You'll Do Design and tune precision pointing and tracking control loops, including closed-loop operation from sensor input to actuator commands at hundreds of hertz. Develop state estimation and sensor fusion using IMU, encoder, and vision feedback. Identify and model gimbal, mount, and actuator dynamics, and compensate for resonance, backlash, friction, saturation, and other nonlinearities. Build and maintain controls simulation and hardware-in-the-loop test infrastructure to validate designs and reduce the sim-to-real gap. Integrate controls with tracking systems and characterize performance on physical hardware in laboratory and field settings. Document controls architecture, tuning approaches, and engineering standards. 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 such as servo

- **Id**: 4209028
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/clera-senior-robotics-engineer-controls-4>
- **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**: 2026-11-12T17:26:03Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T00:27:14Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
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- **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**: 180000
- **Max**: 200000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 200000

## Technologies

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

## Trust

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

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T00:27:14Z

## 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:3, agency, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T03:36:16Z

## Pay

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

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