Controls Engineer (Robotics)

Location: Glen Cove, NY, United States; onsite at headquarters at least 3 days per week

Salary: $180K–$215K annually, plus equity and bonus opportunities.

Company

hirify.global develops robotics, vision, and networking platforms that make real-world automation more accessible across industries.

What you will do

• Own control performance across robotic products, including smooth motion, tracking accuracy, and impedance control.
• Design and maintain control-loop benchmarking and validation for loop rates, synchronization jitter, and tracking error across CAN and EtherCAT architectures.
• Model actuator motor, gearbox, and feedback plants, validate models through physical testing, and define production tolerance bands.
• Implement safety-rated monitoring and stop functions and build tooling for tuning, hardware characterization, diagnostics, and fault injection.
• Optimize servo stability, disturbance rejection, and vibration suppression under dynamic loading conditions.
• Debug system-level issues across software, firmware, electrical, and component behavior while mentoring engineers and advising on technical strategy.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience modeling control systems, tuning control loops on real-world systems, and validating models through physical experiments.
• Strong classical controls expertise, including analytical and heuristic tuning, plant and controller modeling, gain and phase margin analysis, bandwidth testing, signal processing, and filtering.
• Working knowledge of firmware, electrical, and mechanical systems for cross-domain troubleshooting.
• Experience with C/C++, STM32, MATLAB/Simulink, FreeRTOS or similar RTOS, CAN, EtherCAT, Linux, and modern CI/CD tooling.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with a practical focus on simplicity, reliability, execution, and user impact.
• Ability to work from the Glen Cove headquarters at least 3 days per week.

Nice to have

• Experience with modern control techniques such as MPC.
• Experience with encoders, sensors, and sensor fusion.
• Experience interfacing with robotic motion-planning systems.
• Electrical or board-level debugging experience with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and DMMs.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on foundational robotics technologies including motor and actuator control, embedded communications, system health monitoring, logging, and hardware bring-up.
• Collaborate across controls, firmware, electrical, mechanical, and higher-level software teams.
• Equity and bonus opportunities are available in addition to salary.
• Environment values self-direction, creativity, resourcefulness, simplicity, reliability, and execution.