Staff Controls Software Engineer - Real-Time Robotics

Humanoid; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Private healthcare

Pension

Free meals

Job summary

Humanoid in London is seeking a Staff Controls Software Engineer to lead the development and integration of production-grade control software for humanoid robotic systems. You will combine robotics control experience (10+ years) with software engineering discipline to build deterministic, safe, and scalable control stacks, collaborating with hardware, safety, and product teams.

We value hands-on coding, architecture leadership, and the ability to ship production-quality software across embedded

Qualifications

• BS, MS, or PhD in Robotics, Control, Computer Engineering, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain modular, real-time control architectures supporting locomotion, manipulation, and teleoperation.
• Implement high-performance control loops and middleware interfaces for deterministic, safe operation.
• Industrialize algorithms, ensuring production readiness, maintainability, and performance.
• Establish clear software boundaries and interfaces between motion planning, control, and hardware layers.
• Translate research prototypes into scalable, maintainable, and testable control software.
• Apply modern software development practices (CI/CD, code reviews, testing frameworks, documentation).
• Define reliability, latency, and safety metrics and enforce them throughout the control stack.
• Lead the integration of real-time control software on embedded or Linux-based systems.

Skills

C++ (modern)

Python

Real-time control

Debugging

Education

Bachelor's/Master's/PhD in Robotics or related

Tools

ROS2

Eigen

Pinocchio

PyTorch

MuJoCo

Job description

Humanoid in London is seeking a Staff Controls Software Engineer to lead the development and integration of production-grade control software for humanoid robotic systems. You will combine robotics control experience (10+ years) with software engineering discipline to build deterministic, safe, and scalable control stacks, collaborating with hardware, safety, and product teams.

We value hands-on coding, architecture leadership, and the ability to ship production-quality software across embedded