Senior Real-Time Robotics Control Engineer

Primis; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation package

H1B sponsorship

Green Card sponsorship

Market-rate compensation

Job summary

Primis seeks a senior Robotics Engineer to own real-time control and estimation systems for precise robotic manipulation. You will work on hardware-focused closed-loop control, integrating live sensor data into accurate robot arm motion with state estimation, MPC and robust C++ code.

The role emphasizes building real-time software on physical robots, handling uncertainty, latency, and sensor noise while shaping the control stack architecture with a senior technical lens.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of robotics manipulation and control.
• Real-time control and state estimation (MPC, Kalman filters, observability).
• Experience building and running real-time robotic systems on physical hardware.
• Strong understanding of robot arm kinematics, dynamics, trajectory generation and correction.
• Experience with visual servoing or sensor-guided manipulation.
• Strong perception knowledge: geometric/model-based vision, 3D sensing, point-cloud registration and calibration.
• Production C++ is non-negotiable; robust, deterministic real-time software.
• Experience with hard-real-time concepts: deterministic loops, timing budgets, concurrency, thread safety, debugging on hardware.
• Senior technical credibility to influence architecture and the control stack direction.

Responsibilities

• Own the real-time closed loop from sensing to motion, including state estimation, feedback and predictive control, and end-effector trajectory correction.
• Build control systems that maintain accuracy despite uncertainty, sensor noise and latency.
• Make engineering decisions about what can be estimated from sensor data, while designing systems that understand uncertainty and fail safely.
• Build and ship hard-real-time software running on physical robots, not just simulation.
• Work across manipulation, arm kinematics and dynamics, trajectory generation, coordinate frames and calibration.
• Develop sensor-guided and visual servoing systems that connect perception directly to robot control.
• Help shape the technical direction toward learning-based and whole-body control.

Skills

Real-time control

State estimation

Model Predictive Control

Kalman filters

C++

Robot manipulation

Hard real-time

Sensor fusion

Concurrency

Job description

Primis seeks a senior Robotics Engineer to own real-time control and estimation systems for precise robotic manipulation. You will work on hardware-focused closed-loop control, integrating live sensor data into accurate robot arm motion with state estimation, MPC and robust C++ code.

The role emphasizes building real-time software on physical robots, handling uncertainty, latency, and sensor noise while shaping the control stack architecture with a senior technical lens.