Senior Locomotion Control Engineer (Robotics)

Location: El Segundo, California, United States

Annual salary: $110,000–$135,000 DOE, plus benefits and incentive plans

Company

hirify.global is a California-based embodied artificial intelligence company developing user-centric vehicles and robots for human-AI interaction.

What you will do

• Design, implement, and optimize robot locomotion systems covering gait generation, balance control, and terrain adaptation.
• Develop locomotion controllers using MPC, whole-body control, reinforcement learning, or hybrid control approaches.
• Own the simulation-to-hardware loop, including controller tuning, regression validation, and failure analysis.
• Improve robot stability, robustness, safety, and energy efficiency in real-world conditions.
• Collaborate with runtime, simulation, behavior, and hardware teams on interfaces and integration.
• Support real-robot bring-up, debugging, performance analysis, control architecture, and roadmap planning.

Requirements

• Master’s degree or above in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in robotics locomotion, motion control, or autonomous robotic systems, including 3+ years with quadruped, humanoid, or legged robots.
• Strong knowledge of robotics dynamics, kinematics, estimation, and control theory.
• Hands-on experience with locomotion approaches such as MPC, whole-body control, reinforcement learning locomotion, or heuristic gait control.
• Strong C++ skills and proficiency in Python for research, simulation, tooling, and analysis.
• Experience deploying locomotion or control algorithms on physical robots and diagnosing real-system failures.

Nice to have

• Experience with reinforcement learning locomotion, imitation learning, or policy-based control.
• Sim-to-real experience with actuator modeling, latency compensation, domain randomization, or system identification.
• Familiarity with MuJoCo, Isaac, RaiSim, Gazebo, or equivalent simulation platforms.
• Experience with real-time robotics systems, ROS 2, controller scheduling, and control-runtime integration.
• Background in contact-rich control, force control, whole-body coordination, or shipping motion capabilities to field performance.

Culture & Benefits

• Healthcare, dental, and vision benefits, free for employees and discounted for family.
• 401(k) options.
• Casual dress code and relaxed work environment.
• Culturally diverse and progressive atmosphere.
• Incentive plans in addition to base salary.