Robotics Control Engineer - Real-World Motion & WBC

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. As a Controls Engineer you will bridge hardware and motion, implement impedance controls, and develop real-time software for robots from