Robotics Control Systems Engineer (C++)

Location: Bay Area, United States; work onsite

Company

hirify.global develops general-purpose robotic systems combining embedded software, control algorithms, and physical robot hardware.

What you will do

• Design, implement, and optimize embedded control stacks for general-purpose robots.
• Develop motion planning and trajectory optimization algorithms for dynamic locomotion and manipulation.
• Build real-time state estimation pipelines for pose, contact, and force sensing by fusing heterogeneous sensor data under noise and uncertainty.
• Formulate and solve optimal control problems, including nonlinear MPC, convex optimization, and trajectory optimization.
• Build modular software frameworks that support rapid iteration between simulation and physical hardware.
• Lead controller debugging, tuning, and validation directly on physical robots.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience designing, implementing, and deploying advanced control algorithms on real robotic products.
• Demonstrated excellence in control systems engineering.
• Deep expertise in dynamics, kinematics, optimal control, and state estimation.
• Strong command of hardware interfaces, IMUs, force/torque sensors, motors, gearboxes, and drivers.
• Production-level mastery of C++ and experience building reliable, safety-critical software.
• Ability to bridge hardware, software, and algorithms to deliver robust end-to-end systems.

Nice to have

• Experience shipping humanoid robots or whole-body control systems.
• Published work in control theory, state estimation, or mathematical optimization.
• Familiarity with GPU parallel computation for accelerating optimization.
• Open-mindedness about deep learning, reinforcement learning, and vision-language-action models in general-purpose robotics.

Culture & Benefits

• Passion for robotics and demonstrated technical excellence are valued.
• The role combines hardware, software, algorithms, simulation, and physical robot testing.