Member of Technical Staff, Robotics Control (Whole Body Control)

XDOF; Philippines; On-site; PHP 600,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

At XDOF, we're at an inflection point. Frontier labs are racing to build general-purpose robots, and high-quality training data is the bottleneck.

We're building the foundation behind the foundation models — the data collection systems, operational capability, exabyte-scale data warehouse, and software toolchain — to help our partners drive the field forward. As a Controls Engineer you will bridge hardware and motion, implement impedance controls, and develop real-time software for robots from

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree (or equivalent experience) in robotics, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, or a related field.
• Strong fundamentals in robot dynamics, kinematics, and feedback control.
• Hands-on experience implementing controllers on real robotic systems, not just in simulation.

Responsibilities

• Implement joint-space and Cartesian impedance / torque control for 7+ DoF robotic arms
• Build whole-body control (WBC) for highly redundant humanoids with mobile bases, arms, and actuated torsos
• Design optimization-based controllers: QP formulations, inverse dynamics, task/null-space control, and redundancy resolution
• Develop collision-aware motion and control, including self-collision avoidance and environment constraints
• Implement and integrate real-time control software on physical robots, from simulation through hardware deployment
• Tune and validating controller performance across diverse manipulation and locomotion tasks
• Work closely with data collection operators and hardware teams to diagnose and resolve control-related failure modes during teleoperation and autonomous runs

Skills

C++

Python

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in robotics / engineering / CS

Job description

At XDOF, we're at an inflection point. Frontier labs are racing to build general-purpose robots, and high-quality training data is the bottleneck. We're building the foundation behind the foundation models — the data collection systems, operational capability, exabyte-scale data warehouse, and software toolchain — to help our partners drive the field forward.

What You'll Do

Controls engineers are the bridge between robot hardware and reliable, high-quality motion. Sample projects include:

• implementing joint-space and Cartesian impedance / torque control for 7+ DoF robotic arms
• building whole-body control (WBC) for highly redundant humanoids with mobile bases, arms, and actuated torsos
• designing optimization-based controllers: QP formulations, inverse dynamics, task/null-space control, and redundancy resolution
• developing collision-aware motion and control, including self-collision avoidance and environment constraints
• implementing and integrating real-time control software on physical robots, from simulation through hardware deployment
• tuning and validating controller performance across diverse manipulation and locomotion tasks
• working closely with data collection operators and hardware teams to diagnose and resolve control-related failure modes during teleoperation and autonomous runs

About You

Baseline skills:

• bachelor's or master's degree (or equivalent experience) in robotics, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, or a related field
• strong fundamentals in robot dynamics, kinematics, and feedback control
• hands‑on experience implementing controllers on real robotic systems, not just in simulation
• strong C++ and/or Python, and comfort working with real-time robotics systems

You Might Be a Good Fit If You

• have experience with whole-body control, operational-space control, MPC, or optimization-based control
• come from a background in humanoid robotics, manipulation, legged robotics, or advanced industrial robot control
• have worked on real-time embedded control software and understand the constraints of deploying to physical hardware
• are very comfortable working in 0→1 environments
• are mission-driven and passionate about robotics: work at XDOF is fast-paced and constant. We hope you love what you're going to be doing, because you'll be doing a lot of it!