# Robotics Controls Engineer Lead

About the company GRAM Corporation scales skilled labor for the physical economy. We design, manufacture and operate insectoids, general-purpose machines not built in our image. They work in large populations on the critical infrastructure nations depend on. The electric grid comes first. Our research is in how those populations coordinate and keep themselves running. The goal is Self-Replication (SR), the point where a population of machines delivers more labor than it takes to build and run. The role You will own locomotion controls for GRAM’s multi-legged robot, from the low-level actuator loops to whole-body control on uneven terrain. Model-based control is the priority, and learning-based control experience is a bonus. This is a hands-on role: you will write the controllers yourself, tune and prove them on the robot, and work closely with the Autonomy, Simulation and Systems Integration teams. You start as an individual contributor, with a path to build and lead a controls team as the company grows Responsibilities: Develop and implement model-based locomotion control systems for multi-legged robots. Write and optimize low-level actuator loops and whole-body control algorithms

- **Id**: 4315071
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/gram-robotics-controls-engineer-lead>
- **Role**: Robotics
- **Role family**: Robotics
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-14T13:54:50Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-14
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T15:23:53Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3569
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Robotics AI, Robotic Software & Control Systems

## Company

- **Id**: 673569
- **Name**: GRAM
- **Domain**: gram.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/gram-3>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 75
- **Open postings**: 3
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: yes
- **Drake** — Optional: yes
- **MuJoCo** — Optional: yes
- **Pinocchio** — Optional: yes
- **Python** — Optional: yes

## Trust

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

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-14T15:23:53Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T16:47:16Z

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