Drimva

Dexmate

Senior Robotics Controls Engineer

$100K–$300K

Fremont Office · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Mar 1, 2025

Experience
5+ years of professional experience developing control systems for dynamic robots, deployed on real hardware.
Education
Master's or PhD in Robotics, Controls, Mechanical Engineering, or related field.

About the job

Owns the development and deployment of state estimation and whole-body control algorithms for robots, validating performance through simulation and physical hardware.

What you'll do

  • Develop real-time state estimation, sensor fusion, and dynamic control algorithms.
  • Build and deploy production C++ control software for real-time embedded environments.
  • Test and improve algorithms on physical robots, including trajectory optimization, performance evaluation, and failure analysis.

What they ask for

  • 5+ years of professional experience developing control systems for dynamic robots deployed on real hardware.
  • Master's or PhD in Robotics, Controls, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field.
  • Expertise in control theory and state estimation, including nonlinear control, MPC, LQR, Kalman filters, particle filters, and factor graphs.
  • Production-quality C++ and Python, with hands-on sensor integration and validation on physical robotic systems.

Nice to have

  • Experience with bipedal, quadruped, or humanoid robots and contact-rich systems.
  • Experience with reinforcement learning or learning-augmented control.

Pay

$100K – $300K USD base salary

Tools

C++, Python, EKFs, UKFs, MPC, LQR, OSQP, IPOPT

AI focus

Robotics control and estimation within a physical AI context; preferred work includes reinforcement learning or learning-augmented control for locomotion or manipulation.

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