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About the Role
The Senior Robotics Control Engineer will design and develop real-time control systems for advanced robotic manipulators, focusing on torque control, motion planning, and state estimation. This role involves building optimization-based control algorithms, integrating sensor fusion, and driving controller performance from simulation through hardware validation.
Responsibilities
- Design and develop real-time C++ code control of robotic arms, with emphasis on torque control and low impedance.
- Build model-based planning and control components: trajectory optimization, inverse dynamics, and whole-arm motion control.
- Develop state estimation for real-time manipulation, fusing encoders, torque sensors, force-torque sensing, and IMUs.
- Own controller performance end-to-end: simulation validation, hardware bring-up, tuning, and regression testing.
- Design scalable solutions that integrate with Autonomy, Hardware, and Testing systems at Foundry.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience implementing optimization-based multi-DOF control algorithms (inverse dynamics, trajectory optimization) on real robotic systems
- Experience building state estimation solutions for real-time robotic systems such as (E)KFs, Particle Filters, Factor Graphs, etc.
- Experience with various sensors (encoders, torque sensors, force-torque sensors, IMUs) and sensor fusion
- Deep understanding of spatial kinematics, dynamics, and related mathematical concepts
- A proven track record iterating on complex multi-DOF systems, with emphasis on torque control and low impedance
- Fluency in modern C++ and Python
Skills
- MPC / receding-horizon control on real systems
- Contact-rich manipulation, grasping, or force-controlled assembly
- Rigid-body dynamics libraries (Pinocchio, Drake, MuJoCo) and optimization solvers
- ROS 2 and real-time Linux
- Machine Learning as it relates to control or state estimation (learned dynamics models, residual policies, imitation learning)
Location
- San Francisco
Work Type
- full-time
Experience Level
- 5+ years
Salary/Compensations
- $150,000—$250,000 USD
Benefits
- Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage
- generous PTO
- equity compensation
About the Company
- Foundry Robotics is building an AI-native robotics manufacturing company focused on deploying advanced assembly and production capability for leading robotics companies and national-security-critical hardware.
- Factory OS is building software that runs factories. Our platform spans cloud backends, on-prem services, and edge devices deployed on the factory floor.
- We are committed to being deeply embedded in the U.S. industrial base. Our focus is simple: build adaptive robotic assembly systems that make American manufacturing scalable, resilient, and competitive again.