Senior Robotics Control Engineer & Research Leader

Genesis; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Genesis is seeking an experienced control systems engineer to design, implement, and optimize the embedded control stack for general-purpose robots. You will design motion planning and trajectory optimization, build real-time state estimation pipelines, and solve nonlinear MPC and optimization problems for high-performance behavior.

You will create modular software frameworks enabling rapid iteration between simulation and hardware, and lead debugging and validation on physical robots.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and optimize the embedded control stack for robots.
• Design motion planning and trajectory optimization algorithms.
• Build real-time state estimation pipelines for pose and sensing.
• Formulate and solve optimal control problems for high-performance behavior.
• Build modular software frameworks enabling simulation/hardware iteration.
• Lead debugging, tuning, and validation on physical robots.

Skills

Control systems engineering

C++ production-level

Robotics systems integration

Hardware-software bridge

State estimation

Dynamics and kinematics

GPU acceleration

Tools

GPUs

Job description

Genesis is seeking an experienced control systems engineer to design, implement, and optimize the embedded control stack for general-purpose robots. You will design motion planning and trajectory optimization, build real-time state estimation pipelines, and solve nonlinear MPC and optimization problems for high-performance behavior.

You will create modular software frameworks enabling rapid iteration between simulation and hardware, and lead debugging and validation on physical robots.