Senior Robotics Control Engineer – Real-Time Systems

Genesis AI

United States

On-site

USD 120,000 - 200,000

Full time

14 days+
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Job summary

Genesis AI seeks a senior control systems engineer to design, implement, and optimize the embedded control stack for general-purpose robots, leading real-world robotics software development.

You will work across dynamics, sensing, and optimization, bridging hardware and software with an emphasis on robust end-to-end systems and advancing RL/vision-language-action models for versatile robotics applications.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years designing, implementing, and deploying advanced control algorithms on real robotic systems.
  • Deep knowledge of dynamics, kinematics, optimal control, and state estimation.
  • Strong command of hardware interfaces, sensors (IMUs, F/T sensors), and actuation (motors, gearboxes, drivers).
  • Production-level mastery of C++ with a track record of safe, reliable software.
  • Ability to bridge hardware, software, and algorithms to deliver end-to-end robotics solutions.
  • Open mindset toward deep learning, RL, and vision-language-action models for general-purpose robotics.
  • Bonus: experience shipping humanoid or whole-body control systems.
  • Bonus: published work in control theory, state estimation, or optimization.
  • Bonus: familiarity with parallel GPU computation to accelerate optimization.

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and optimize the embedded control stack for general-purpose robots
  • Design motion planning and trajectory optimization for dynamic locomotion and manipulation
  • Build real-time state estimation pipelines for pose, contact, and force sensing
  • Formulate and solve optimal control problems (nonlinear MPC, convex optimization, trajectory optimization) for high-performance behavior
  • Build modular software frameworks enabling rapid iteration between simulation and hardware
  • Lead debugging, tuning, and validation of controllers directly on physical robots

Skills

Control systems
C++ programming
State estimation
Sensor integration
Hardware interfaces
Dynamic optimization
Robotics software
Reinforcement learning
Vision-language-action robotics

Tools

GPU acceleration

Job description

Genesis AI seeks a senior control systems engineer to design, implement, and optimize the embedded control stack for general-purpose robots, leading real-world robotics software development.

You will work across dynamics, sensing, and optimization, bridging hardware and software with an emphasis on robust end-to-end systems and advancing RL/vision-language-action models for versatile robotics applications.

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