Robotics Engineer, Manipulation & Control (C++)

Location: New York, United States

Company

hirify.global is hiring for a robotics engineering role focused on physical robot manipulation and control systems.

What you will do

• Own the real-time closed loop from sensor input to precise robot arm motion.
• Develop state estimation, model predictive control, trajectory correction, and calibration systems.
• Build control systems that operate reliably under sensor noise, latency, and real-world uncertainty.
• Work with arm kinematics and dynamics, trajectory generation, sensor-guided manipulation, and visual servoing.
• Connect geometric and model-based perception directly to robot control, including 3D sensing and point-cloud registration.
• Help shape the technical direction of learning-based and whole-body control systems.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience specifically in robotics manipulation and control.
• First-principles understanding of model predictive control, Kalman filters, and observability.
• Experience shipping real-time robotic systems on physical hardware, rather than only in research or simulation.
• Strong robot arm kinematics and dynamics, trajectory generation, and visual servoing or sensor-guided manipulation experience.
• Production-grade C++ and strong ROS/ROS2 experience are required.
• Experience with hard-real-time concepts, deterministic loops, timing budgets, concurrency, and debugging on physical hardware.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on, hardware-first work on physical robots.
• Technical ownership of the control stack and its direction.
• Encouragement for candidates from underrepresented groups to apply.