Robotics Controls Engineer (Robotics)

Location: San Mateo, United States; hybrid

Company

hirify.global builds data collection systems, operational infrastructure, an exabyte-scale data warehouse, and software tools for training general-purpose robotics and foundation models.

What you will do

• Implement joint-space and Cartesian impedance and torque control for 7+ DoF robotic arms.
• Build whole-body control for redundant humanoid robots with mobile bases, arms, and actuated torsos.
• Design optimization-based controllers using QP formulations, inverse dynamics, task/null-space control, and redundancy resolution.
• Develop collision-aware motion and control with self-collision avoidance and environmental constraints.
• Implement and integrate real-time control software from simulation through deployment on physical robots.
• Tune and validate controller performance and diagnose control-related failures during teleoperation and autonomous runs.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree, or equivalent experience, in robotics, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, or a related field.
• Strong fundamentals in robot dynamics, kinematics, and feedback control.
• Hands-on experience implementing controllers on real robotic systems, not only in simulation.
• Strong C++ and/or Python skills and familiarity with real-time robotics systems.

Nice to have

• Experience with whole-body control, operational-space control, MPC, or optimization-based control.
• Background in humanoid robotics, manipulation, legged robotics, or advanced industrial robot control.
• Experience with real-time embedded control software and physical hardware deployment constraints.
• Comfort working in 0→1 environments and strong passion for robotics.

Culture & Benefits

• Fast-paced work focused on advancing general-purpose robotics.
• Close collaboration with data collection operators and hardware teams.
• Hands-on work with physical robots across teleoperation and autonomous runs.