Senior Full-Stack Robotics Engineer: Real-Time Control

Feather Robotics; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Feather Robotics seeks a Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack Robotics to design and implement control systems for humanoid robots. You will work with a tight-knit team shipping units and advancing Physical AI across industries.

Join a VC-backed startup building a world-class labor platform. You will own multiple layers of the tech stack, collaborate with mechanical and AI engineers, and push real-time robotics capabilities from research to deployment.

Qualifications

• Background in control theory, dynamics, calibration, sensor fusion or classical methods.
• Experience with robot locomotion, manipulation, trajectory optimization, or whole-body control.
• Develop on modern infrastructure (ROS2, simulation, etc.).
• Strong programming in Python, C++, and Rust.

Responsibilities

• Develop, test, and tune low-level and high-level control algorithms for humanoid robots.
• Implement real-time control strategies for locomotion, manipulation, and whole-body coordination.
• Stress-test the system for edge cases and ensure reliability.
• Collaborate with mechanical and AI engineers to integrate perception, planning, and control into a unified system.
• Run experiments on hardware to evaluate performance and debug complex behaviors.

Skills

Python

C++

Rust

Control theory

Robot locomotion

Whole-body control

Education

Bachelor/Master/PhD in related field

Tools

ROS2

Simulation

Job description

Feather Robotics seeks a Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack Robotics to design and implement control systems for humanoid robots. You will work with a tight-knit team shipping units and advancing Physical AI across industries.

Join a VC-backed startup building a world-class labor platform. You will own multiple layers of the tech stack, collaborate with mechanical and AI engineers, and push real-time robotics capabilities from research to deployment.