Member of Technical Staff, Robotics Control (Whole Body Control)
XDOF, San Mateo Hybrid
The role
Great data starts with great hardware behavior. We're looking for a Robotics Controls Engineer to build the high-performance control systems that make our dexterous manipulators and humanoid robots move safely, precisely, and repeatably — because every teleoperation session, every collection run, and every downstream model depends on robots that respond exactly as commanded.
What you will do
Controls engineers are the bridge between robot hardware and reliable, high-quality motion. Sample projects include:
- implementing joint-space and Cartesian impedance / torque control for 7+ DoF robotic arms
- building whole-body control (WBC) for highly redundant humanoids with mobile bases, arms, and actuated torsos
- designing optimization-based controllers: QP formulations, inverse dynamics, task/null-space control, and redundancy resolution
- developing collision-aware motion and control, including self-collision avoidance and environment constraints