Robotics team focused on unlocking general-purpose robotics and pushing towards AGI-level intelligence in dynamic, real-world settings
Work across the entire model stack, integrating cutting-edge hardware and software to explore a broad range of robotic form factors
About the Role
Foundational role within the robotics team
Architect, implement, tune, and verify the control infrastructure that enables intelligent, reliable, and responsive robot behavior
Deeply hands-on role focused on real-time systems, actuation, dynamics, low-level hardware interaction, and whole-robot performance
Based in San Francisco, CA, requires in-person 5 days a week
Responsibilities
Design and implement real-time control algorithms for robotic systems, including motion control, feedback loops, state estimation, actuator control, and subsystem tuning
Define the control architecture from low-level actuators and hardware interfaces through whole-robot behavior and policy
Identify and characterize actuator, hardware, and software parameters through rigorous experimentation, testing, commissioning, and verification
Work with machine learning engineers to implement reinforcement learning models
Collaborate across mechanical, electrical, and software teams to integrate control logic with sensing and actuation hardware
Help inform the mechanical and electrical design to maximize capability and flexibility
Create the control system architecture; determine the correct level of abstraction from actuators all the way up to whole-robot policy
Requirements
Strong robotics background, including manipulators, mobile robots, or other complex physical systems
Experience with actuation, control systems, robot dynamics, estimation, subsystem tuning, or whole-body motion
Comfortable being hands-on with robotic hardware, including commissioning, debugging, testing, and iterating on real robots
Strong fundamentals in classical control, system dynamics, and estimation, with exposure to modern learning-based or reinforcement learning approaches
Can move comfortably across the stack, from low-level actuator behavior and hardware interfaces to higher-level algorithms and whole-robot performance
Experience writing performant production-quality software in C++ or Rust
Experience with robotic hardware and enjoy iterating quickly between simulation and real-world testing environments