Rover Control Systems Engineer (Robotics)

Location: Fully remote, with the role listed in Hawthorne, California; some travel may be required.

Salary: $140,000–$160,000 per year

Company

hirify.global designs and builds rovers, power systems, and data networks for sustained lunar operations and planetary surface exploration.

What you will do

• Define rover and subsystem control-system requirements with stakeholders.
• Design, analyze, develop, tune, verify, and validate vehicle and robotic control systems.
• Build and mature controller simulations using Matlab, Simulink, Python, and equivalent tools.
• Prototype controllers and analyze performance, stability, and robustness using simulations, testbeds, and test data.
• Support sizing and selection of sensors, cameras, motor encoders, motors, actuators, and other integrated control-system components.
• Convert controller prototypes into flight code, support unit and integrated testing, and calibrate integrated hardware and robotic control systems.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM-related field.
• 5+ years of robotic control-system development experience.
• Experience building, testing, and validating control-system simulation and analysis tools.
• Experience analyzing and tuning robotic control-system performance.
• Experience with flight-like hardware testbeds and Matlab/Simulink or equivalent control-system design and analysis software.

Culture & Benefits

• Equity ownership in the company.
• Medical, dental, vision, and mental-health benefits.
• 401(k) plan with company match.
• Flexible PTO and parental leave.
• Home-office setup reimbursement.
• Lunch stipend, on-site snacks and beverages, and monthly social hours.

Hiring process

• Application review.
• Recruiter phone interview followed by video interviews.
• On-site interview and offer.