Robotics Controls Engineer: Validation & HIL Expert

Humanoid; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Humanoid in Boston seeks a Controls Engineer to own testing and validation infrastructure for the robots. You will define metrics, build HIL workflows, and drive end-to-end validation on real hardware, enabling repeatable and measurable control performance.

Ideal candidates have strong control theory background, shipped C++ real-time software, and experience with test automation, observability, and hardware bring-up for complex robotic systems.

Qualifications

• Hands-on robotics experience on real hardware.
• Strong foundation in joint-space control, PID, and observers.
• Shipped software in C++ real-time stack and Python tooling.
• Built test automation and HIL/integration-test infrastructure.
• Proficient in measurement, statistics, and data analysis.
• Experience with observability tools such as logging and Grafana.

Responsibilities

• Build and own hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) and integration test workflows that quantify controller and motion repeatability and accuracy.
• Define and implement repeatability and accuracy metrics for controller and motion changes.
• Expand unit and integration test coverage across controls components: actuators, interfaces, whole-body control, teleoperation.
• Develop automated regression checks to surface controls regressions before wider release.
• Contribute to design of testability requirements for new components and algorithms.
• Package controllers into reusable, testable interfaces for isolation and interchangeability.
• Contribute to first-time bring-up of new hardware for Boston components and ensure end-to-end validation on real robots.
• Instrument the controls stack to improve visibility with logging and tracing.

Skills

Robotics experience

Control theory

C++ real-time

Python

HIL testing

Test automation

Observability tooling

Hardware bring-up

Debugging across HW/SW

Data analysis

Grafana

Tools

C++ RT stack

Python tooling

MuJoCo

Isaac Sim

Grafana

Job description

Humanoid in Boston seeks a Controls Engineer to own testing and validation infrastructure for the robots. You will define metrics, build HIL workflows, and drive end-to-end validation on real hardware, enabling repeatable and measurable control performance.

Ideal candidates have strong control theory background, shipped C++ real-time software, and experience with test automation, observability, and hardware bring-up for complex robotic systems.