Senior Robot Stability & Safety Engineer

Rhoda AI; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Rhoda AI in Mountain View, CA, seeks a Senior MTS: Safety Systems Engineer‑Robot Stability to own design, implementation, and optimization of control for robust balance and dynamic locomotion in humanoid robots.

You will ensure AI-driven perception, planning, and control meet safety standards, define requirements for stability, lead verification, and assemble evidence for formal certification across cross‑functional teams.

Qualifications

• MS or PhD in Robotics, Control Systems, Mechanical Engineering, or related field.
• Strong background in dynamics, kinematics, and control theory.
• Experience with humanoid or legged robot control systems.
• Proficiency in Python for data analysis.
• Hands-on experience with simulation tools MuJoCo, Gazebo, Isaac Sim.
• Familiarity with Kalman filters and sensor fusion.
• Hands-on experience with data collection and data analysis in Verification and Validation.

Responsibilities

• Develop safety requirements for Robot Stability through analysis, empirical derivation, and testing.
• Derive requirements for performance and stability of advanced control algorithms for whole‑body stability, balance, and posture regulation in humanoid platforms.
• Architect fail‑safe methodology for robot stability to influence design and implementation of real‑time controllers (e.g., ZMP, MPC, inverse dynamics, whole‑body control).
• Define requirements, performance and fail‑safe methods for sensor feedback (IMU, force/torque, vision) for state estimation and disturbance rejection.
• Invent novel and improve existing techniques for robustness against external perturbations, uneven terrain, and dynamic interactions.
• Collaborate with perception, planning, and hardware teams to ensure seamless system integration.
• Simulate, test, and validate control strategies in both virtual environments and physical robots.
• Contribute to safety‑critical features, including fall prevention and recovery strategies.

Skills

Robotics

Control theory

Dynamics

Kinematics

Python

Verification & Validation

Cross‑functional collaboration

Safety systems

Education

MS or PhD in Robotics or related field

Tools

MuJoCo

Gazebo

Isaac Sim

Job description

Rhoda AI in Mountain View, CA, seeks a Senior MTS: Safety Systems Engineer‑Robot Stability to own design, implementation, and optimization of control for robust balance and dynamic locomotion in humanoid robots.

You will ensure AI-driven perception, planning, and control meet safety standards, define requirements for stability, lead verification, and assemble evidence for formal certification across cross‑functional teams.