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You will work through real sensing, actuation, timing and contact challenges, measure what the robot actually does, and collaborate with software and hardware engineers to deliver useful behavior beyond a demonstration.\nResponsibilities\nMotion Control: Design, implement and tune controllers for joint, Cartesian or coordinated robot motion according to task and hardware needs.\n\nCoordination & Constraints: Integrate control with kinematics, dynamics, task priorities and practical actuator or workspace limits.\n\nCompliance & Physical Interaction: Develop appropriate interaction behavior for tasks that require impedance, admittance, force or other compliance methods.\n\nCommand Transitions & Recovery: Implement controller behavior for command-source changes, mode transitions, stale inputs, stopping and recovery under agreed system contracts.\n\nProduction Implementation: Build maintainable C++ control software with attention to timing, concurrency, resource use and diagnostic evidence.\n\nHardware Experimentation: Design experiments and analyze data to investigate tracking, oscillation, saturation, friction, sensing and model mismatch.\n\nValidation & Integration: Work with planning, platform, teleoperation and test engineers to validate complete workflows and maintain controller regression coverage.\n\nRequirements\nEducation: BS, MS or PhD in Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.\n\nPhysical Deployment: Experience implementing and debugging feedback controllers on manipulators, mobile robots or comparable physical motion systems.\n\nControl Foundations: Strong understanding of feedback control, kinematics, dynamics, stability and model uncertainty.\n\nControl Depth: Substantial experience in one or more of Cartesian control, whole-body coordination, impedance/admittance, force control or related methods.\n\nSoftware Engineering: Strong C++ skills and practical Python experience for analysis, experimentation and tooling.\n\nHardware Debugging: Ability to connect observed behavior to sensing, actuation, timing, software and model assumptions.\n\nOwnership: Ability to take a control workstream from formulation and implementation through measured hardware validation.\n\nRequires 5 days/week in-office collaboration with the teams.\n\nBonus Qualifications\nExperience with whole-body optimization, task prioritization or mobile manipulation.\n\nExperience with contact-rich tasks, force sensing or compliant manipulation.\n\nExperience with ROS 2 or comparable robotics middleware.\n\nExperience with real-time software, control performance analysis or constrained computing platforms.\n\nExperience maintaining controller behavior on deployed robots beyond initial demonstrations.\n\nBenefits\nCompetitive stock options/equity programs.\nHealth, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) plan.\nVisa sponsorship and green card support for qualified candidates.\nLunches and dinners, a fully stocked kitchen, and regular team-building events.\nCompensation: Salary $190,000-$265,000 USD + Bonus + Equity\nThe base salary range above represents the expected compensation for this full-time U.S. position. 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