Senior Robotics Controls Engineer, 1X

• Graduate degree in Robotics, Mechanical/Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or similar
• 3+ years practical experience deploying and debugging controls + estimation adjacent software on high DoF robots
• Solid understanding of rigid body dynamics, linear algebra and numerical optimization
• Familiarity with optimization-based whole body control, EKF-based state estimators or model predictive control for legged systems
• Proficiency working with large C++ code bases in a Linux development environment
• Familiarity with modern software development practices, source control, and testing methodologies
• Excellent intuition for how controls software impacts the behavior of the robot
• You enjoy being hands-on with the hardware as much as doing software R&D work
• Extreme care for how your software impacts the rest of product, eg. tele-operation, production, deployment and servicing in the field
• Perseverance and attention to detail

Desirable

• The Senior Robotics Controls Engineer role involves developing the real-time software stack that permits our state-of-the-art hardware to efficiently, elegantly and deterministically manipulate and locomote through its environment
• This is a very hands-on role on a team which is responsible for everything from low-level motor control to whole-body dynamic control and estimation for loco-manipulation
• Our teams goal essentially is to abstract away the complexity of a high DoF series of sensors, actuators, transmissions and links such that our humanoid can be commanded via simple, high-level API’s consumed by our teleoperation and AI engines
• The controls team is the first user of the hardware so you will play a key role in hardware design and sensor evaluation
• There are 30+ humanoids operating 24/7 in-house which you can deploy and test your controls software on
• In time, your software will run on 1000's of humanoids performing tasks in diverse environments, globally
• You'll be on a team with a large set of responsibilities, requiring interaction with hardware, firmware, AI, platforms and production teams, all working towards building the world’s safest and most capable humanoid robot
• You’ll be working with a 50+ DoF biped, with hands, all driven by motors we design and manufacture in-house. If this doesn’t excite you then 🤷
• Humanoid controls algorithm development for balancing, locomotion and manipulation
• Designing fast and efficient state estimation algorithms
• SysID and calibration of actuators, transmissions and full body kinematics
• Hardware integration and sensor evaluation
• Tooling for hardware bring-up and debugging
• Software for robot health monitoring, visualization and logging
• Building and maintaining API's used by other parts of the software stack to command our robots

• Introductions - interviews to learn more about you and talk about 1X and the role
• Interview with a member of the Talent Acquisition team
• Hiring manager / senior team member / technical interview
• Team interviews - technical interviews and deep-dives with team members. May include a take home challenge, presentation or problem-solving exercise
• Technical deep-dive conversation with a team member
• Onsite interviews with team members
• Final Interview Stage - we move you to our final round
• Expectation management with the hiring manager
• We will conduct reference checks
• Job offer conversation
• Depending on the role and your background, additional interviews may be added
• You are also welcome to request additional conversations with anyone you would like to meet, but didn’t get to meet during the interview process
• Target start date: Immediately