Senior Engineer – Control Systems

SWARM Biotactics; Kassel; Vor Ort; EUR 80.000 - 100.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A pioneering robotics company in Kassel seeks a senior engineer with substantial experience to lead control system design for innovative biorobotic platforms. You will tackle challenging control problems, modeling system dynamics, and designing experiments to validate control strategies. Ideal candidates possess a Master's in Control Engineering and several years of practical experience in control systems. Join a world-class team dedicated to advancing the interface between biology and technology.

Leistungen

Opportunity to work on innovative technology

Collaboration with a world-class team

Growth in a well-funded company

Qualifikationen

• Several years of full-time professional experience in control systems (academic roles not sufficient).
• Strong background in classical and modern control methods.
• Experience with simulation-to-real workflows.

Aufgaben

• Design, implement, and tune control systems.
• Develop control strategies for nonlinear and noisy systems.
• Model system dynamics and validate assumptions experimentally.
• Collaborate with motion estimation and hardware teams.

Kenntnisse

Control system design

Robotics

Feedback control methods

Experimental analysis

Embedded development

Ausbildung

Master’s degree in Control Engineering or related field

Tools

FPGA

Microcontrollers

Jobbeschreibung

Overview

At SWARM Biotactics, we’re creating biorobots — living, intelligent systems based on insects. Each insect carries a custom-designed backpack that enables wireless control, sensing, and secure communication.

Biorobot swarms combine the agility of biology with AI, sensors, and swarm coordination — unlocking capabilities where conventional machines fail.

We are the only company in the world doing this — and we’re pushing the edge of what’s possible in every domain: from biology to embedded hardware to swarm intelligence.

Robust control is a foundational capability across our systems.

We are looking for a senior engineer with substantial professional experience who can take ownership of control system design and implementation for biorobotic platforms.

🚀 Join us to work on technically demanding control problems where real-world behaviour matters more than ideal models.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and tune open- and closed-loop control systems
• Develop control strategies for nonlinear, noisy, and time-varying systems
• Model system dynamics and validate assumptions experimentally
• Design and analyze experiments to characterize system response
• Iterate on control performance based on real-world measurements
• Collaborate closely with motion estimation, hardware, and system teams
• Excellent Master’s degree in Control Engineering, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or a closely related field
• Several years of full-time, professional experience in control systems for robotic (student roles, internships, or purely academic projects are not sufficient)
• Strong background in classical and modern control methods
• Practical experience with feedback control (e.g. PID, state-space, LQR or related approaches)
• Solid understanding of system dynamics, stability, and robustness
• Experience designing and tuning controllers on FPGA and micro controller
• Ability to measure, analyse and interpret system behaviour from experimental data
• Experience with dynamically unstable platforms
• Exposure to system identification or model validation
• Experience working with constrained or unconventional systems
• Embedded or hardware-adjacent development experience
• Familiarity with simulation-to-real workflows
• We’re well-funded and expanding fast in a space no one else is in.
• You’ll join a world-class team working on the frontier of science and engineering.
• Your work will directly shape the foundation of biorobotic systems that redefine the interface between life and technology.

Join the Swarm

⚡ Join the Swarm

If you’re ready to create the impossible — hands-on, every day — we want to meet you.