Foundry Robotics
Senior Robotics Control Engineer
$150K–$250K
Emeryville, CA · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 3, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years implementing optimization-based multi-DOF control algorithms on real robotic systems; additional experience requirements are not quantified.
About the job
Designs and validates real-time control systems for robotic manipulators, from simulation through hardware deployment.
What you'll do
- Develop C++ control for robotic arms, including torque control and low impedance.
- Build model-based planning and control, including trajectory optimization, inverse dynamics, and whole-arm motion control.
- Develop sensor-fusion state estimation and own controller validation, hardware bring-up, tuning, and regression testing.
What they ask for
- 5+ years implementing optimization-based multi-DOF control algorithms on real robotic systems.
- Experience building state estimation for real-time robotic systems and working with sensors and sensor fusion.
- Deep understanding of spatial kinematics, dynamics, and related mathematics; proven experience with complex multi-DOF systems, torque control, and low impedance.
- Fluency in modern C++ and Python.
Nice to have
- MPC or receding-horizon control on real systems; contact-rich manipulation, grasping, or force-controlled assembly.
- Rigid-body dynamics libraries or optimization solvers; ROS 2 and real-time Linux; machine learning related to control or state estimation.
Pay
$150,000—$250,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
C++, Python, Pinocchio, Drake, MuJoCo, ROS 2, real-time Linux
AI focus
Machine learning related to control or state estimation, including learned dynamics models, residual policies, and imitation learning, is listed as an additional qualification.
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