Senior Robotics Control Engineer — Real-World Systems & MPC

Genesis; San Carlos (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Genesis seeks an experienced robotics control engineer to design, implement, and optimize embedded control stacks for general-purpose robots. You will craft motion planning, real-time state estimation, and robust control pipelines, while building modular software frameworks that bridge simulation and hardware.

The role emphasizes deep expertise in dynamics, optimal control, and sensor integration, with a focus on production-grade C++ and end-to-end system delivery.

Qualifications

• Must have 8+ years of experience in control systems for real robotic products.
• Strong knowledge of dynamics, kinematics, and state estimation.
• Production-grade C++ for safety-critical software.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and optimize the embedded control stack for robots.
• Design motion planning and trajectory optimization for locomotion and manipulation.
• Build real-time state estimation pipelines fusing sensor data.
• Formulate and solve optimal control problems for high-performance behavior.
• Build modular software frameworks enabling rapid sim-to-hw iteration.
• Lead debugging, tuning, and validation of controllers on robots.

Skills

Control systems

Dynamics & kinematics

Optimal control

State estimation

C++ production-grade

Hardware interfaces

Sensing (IMUs, force/torque)

Robotics software integration

Deep learning / RL / vision-language‑A

GPU acceleration

Tools

GPU programming

Real-time systems

Job description

Genesis seeks an experienced robotics control engineer to design, implement, and optimize embedded control stacks for general-purpose robots. You will craft motion planning, real-time state estimation, and robust control pipelines, while building modular software frameworks that bridge simulation and hardware.

The role emphasizes deep expertise in dynamics, optimal control, and sensor integration, with a focus on production-grade C++ and end-to-end system delivery.