# Gait Control Engineer

About Shift Robotics We’re making the world a more walkable place. Through intuitive personal mobility, we make walking faster, more efficient, and more accessible to empower people to choose walking over sitting in traffic. By giving people the ability to Moonwalk, we believe the path forward to a better future is easily reached on your own two feet. Our flagship product, Moonwalkers, are the world’s fastest robotic shoes, augmenting natural walking with intelligent locomotion assistance. By giving people the ability to Moonwalk, we believe the path toward a more human-scale future can be reached on your own two feet. We are building the next generation of Moonwalkers and are looking for engineers who thrive in fast-paced environments where hardware, software, and human motion intersect. We are covered in Wired, CNET, Gizomodo, PCMag and many other tech press. Role Overview The Gait Control Engineer will lead the development of locomotion control algorithms for Shift’s robotic footwear platform. This role focuses on designing, implementing, and deploying robust control and estimation algorithms that enable safe, intuitive, and responsive human-machine interaction. You will work cl

- **Id**: 818682
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/shiftrobotics-gait-control-engineer>
- **Role**: Robotics
- **Role family**: Robotics
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Austin, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-03-12T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-03-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-06T04:09:14Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 239
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4288
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Flexible vacation policy, Retirement plans, Vision insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Exoskeletons & Wearable Robotics

## Company

- **Id**: 688408
- **Name**: Shift Robotics
- **Domain**: shiftrobotics.io
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/shiftrobotics>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workable

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 83
- **Open postings**: 3
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.667
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-05T05:54:30Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 104000
- **Max usd**: 252000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_country_seniority_unknown
- **Sample n**: 590

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **MATLAB** — Optional: no
- **MuJoCo** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Sensor Fusion** — Optional: no
- **Simulink** — Optional: no
- **Model Predictive Control** — Optional: yes
- **RTOS** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: stale
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale
- **Days open**: 238

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-12T12:11:40Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 2; Filings 12m: 2; Filings prev 12m: 1; Green card filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 4
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.134
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 238
- **Expected fill days**: 25
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-05T05:54:30Z

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