Robot Control Engineer (Robotics)

Location: Mountain View, United States

Salary: $150K–$200K plus equity

Company

hirify.global develops generalist intelligent humanoid robots across hardware, robot systems, AI infrastructure, foundation world models, and manufacturing.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain onboard control software, including control loops, state estimation, and actuator interfaces.
• Implement and tune motion planning and control systems such as whole-body control, trajectory optimization, and model predictive control.
• Integrate learned control policies with the AI/ML team onto real hardware.
• Build system reliability, fault detection, and recovery logic for robust operation.
• Debug differences between simulated and real robot behavior while working directly with prototype hardware.
• Support bring-up and field testing of new hardware revisions.

Requirements

• 1+ year of experience building control software for robotic systems or a related field.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals in C++, Python, or Rust.
• Hands-on experience with motion planning, control loops, state estimation, or actuator interfaces.
• Experience with ROS, ROS2, or similar robotics middleware in production or research.
• Ability to debug from driver-level issues through control behavior on live hardware.
• Comfort working directly with physical hardware in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.

Nice to have

• Experience with whole-body control, trajectory optimization, or model predictive control.
• Experience building sim-to-real pipelines for reinforcement learning or imitation learning.
• Familiarity with humanoid or legged robot platforms.
• Experience integrating learned perception or control models into real-time robot stacks.
• Prior work on prototype or pre-production robots.

Culture & Benefits

• High ownership in a small, fast-moving team.
• Work at the intersection of hardware and AI.
• Direct physical impact of control software on humanoid robot capabilities.
• Equity offered in addition to salary.