Aurelius Systems
Sr. Robotics Engineer, Controls
$180K–$200K
San Francisco · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jun 30, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years of experience in robotics.
- Education
- MS in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or a related field preferred; BS with strong hands-on robotics experience or PhD with a real shipping record also welcome.
- Visa sponsorship
- Requires U.S. Person status for access to export-controlled information or items; the posting defines this to include U.S. citizens, legal permanent residents, and certain protected classes of asylees and refugees.
About the job
Own and develop the precision motion controls stack for an autonomous directed-energy system, from modeling and state estimation through hardware tuning, closed-loop tracking, and field validation.
What you'll do
- Architect and tune precision pointing and tracking control loops, including state estimation and sensor-to-actuator tracking.
- Model and characterize gimbal, mount, and actuator dynamics; develop simulation and hardware-in-the-loop validation infrastructure.
- Test and characterize the system on real targets, and author controls documentation and tuning standards.
What they ask for
- 4+ years of experience in robotics.
- Strong knowledge of classical controls, state space, LQR, and MPC.
- Proven simulation experience and success managing the sim-to-real gap on actual hardware.
- Modern C++ for real-time control implementation; Python or MATLAB/Simulink for modeling, system identification, and analysis.
Nice to have
- Advanced MPC, including nonlinear, robust, or real-time NMPC on resource-constrained hardware.
- Gimbal, beam director, or precision pointing system experience.
Pay
$180K – $200K USD base salary
Tools
C++, Python, MATLAB/Simulink, LQR, MPC, Kalman filters, EKF, UKF
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