Controls Engineer - Humanoid Locomotion & Balance

Media Stream AI Limited; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Media Stream AI Limited is developing advanced locomotion controllers for a humanoid platform in Manchester. The role focuses on whole-body balance, locomotion control, and safety during operation, with start dates arranged ahead of the factory launch in Q1 2027.

Responsibilities include developing and tuning controllers, modeling dynamics, and validating hardware behaviour, while ensuring robust performance and failure handling in real-world scenarios.

Qualifications

• Robot control theory in practice, MPC, whole-body control, state estimation.
• Strong dynamics knowledge and real-world validation.
• Experience transferring controllers from simulation to legged hardware.

Responsibilities

• Develop and tune whole-body, balance and locomotion controllers.
• Model the platform dynamics and validate against measured hardware behaviour.
• Close the loop between learned policies and classical control.
• Own controller performance, stability margins and failure behaviour.

Skills

Robot control theory

Whole-body control

MPC

State estimation

Dynamics

Job description

Media Stream AI Limited is developing advanced locomotion controllers for a humanoid platform in Manchester. The role focuses on whole-body balance, locomotion control, and safety during operation, with start dates arranged ahead of the factory launch in Q1 2027.

Responsibilities include developing and tuning controllers, modeling dynamics, and validating hardware behaviour, while ensuring robust performance and failure handling in real-world scenarios.