Senior Robotics Control Engineer — Real-Time MPC & State Estimation

Genesis AI; Paris; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Genesis AI is seeking an experienced control systems engineer to design, implement, and optimize the embedded control stack for general-purpose robots. You will develop real-time state estimation, motion planning, and robust software frameworks that bridge hardware and software for rapid iteration between simulation and hardware.

The role focuses on hands-on validation on physical robots, tuning controllers, and advancing nonlinear MPC and optimization techniques, with emphasis on

Qualifications

• Passion for control systems engineering with demonstrated excellence.
• 8+ years designing, implementing, deploying advanced control algorithms on real robotic systems.
• Deep expertise in dynamics, kinematics, optimal control, and state estimation.
• Strong command of hardware interfaces, sensors (IMUs, force/torque), and actuation tech.
• Production-level mastery of C++ with safety-critical software experience.
• Ability to bridge hardware, software and algorithms to deliver end-to-end systems.
• Open mind about deep learning, reinforcement learning and vision-language-action models for robotics.
• Bonus: experience shipping humanoid robots or whole-body control systems.
• Bonus: published work in control theory, state estimation, or mathematical optimization.
• Bonus: familiarity with parallel computation on GPUs to accelerate optimization.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and optimize the embedded control stack for general-purpose robots.
• Design motion planning and trajectory optimization algorithms for dynamic locomotion and manipulation.
• Build real-time state estimation pipelines for pose, contact, and force sensing, fusing data under noise.
• Formulate and solve optimal control problems (nonlinear MPC, convex optimization, trajectory optimization).
• Build modular software frameworks enabling rapid iteration between simulation and hardware.
• Lead debugging, tuning, and validation of controllers directly on physical robots.

Skills

Control systems

C++ development

Robotics hardware

Sensor fusion

Job description

Genesis AI is seeking an experienced control systems engineer to design, implement, and optimize the embedded control stack for general-purpose robots. You will develop real-time state estimation, motion planning, and robust software frameworks that bridge hardware and software for rapid iteration between simulation and hardware.

The role focuses on hands-on validation on physical robots, tuning controllers, and advancing nonlinear MPC and optimization techniques, with emphasis on