Senior Robotics Controls Engineer: Humanoid Motion

1X; San Carlos (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary range: $200,000 - $300,000 +...

Health, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off and holidays

Job summary

1X is building humanoid robots that move in home environments to perform chores and give people their time back. As a Senior Robotics Controls Engineer, you will develop the real-time software stack that makes our robots move, balance, and manipulate the world with precision and reliability, bridging hardware and AI from R&D to production.

You will design fast state estimation and control algorithms, create clean hardware abstractions, calibrate actuators and full-body kinematics, and build

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional experience deploying and debugging control or estimation software on high-DOF robots.
• Proven track record of evaluating and integrating robotics hardware components (including sensors and actuators) in a professional or advanced academic setting.
• Experience with ROS2 or DDS is preferred.
• Experience with real-time Linux and embedded systems is a plus.
• Strong mathematical background in dynamics, linear algebra, and numerical optimization.

Responsibilities

• Develop the real-time software stack to move, balance, and manipulate the world with precision and reliability.
• Design and deploy fast, efficient state estimation and control algorithms for balancing, locomotion, and manipulation.
• Create hardware abstractions through clean software abstractions and APIs for higher-level AI systems to command the robot.
• Perform system calibration of actuators, transmissions, and full-body kinematics.
• Build diagnostics, health monitoring, visualization, and logging tools for robust software bring-up.

Skills

Domain Expertise

Algorithmic Mastery

Software Engineering

Best Practices

Cross-Disciplinary Troubleshooting

Tools

ROS2

DDS

Real-time Linux

Yocto

C++

Job description

1X is building humanoid robots that move in home environments to perform chores and give people their time back. As a Senior Robotics Controls Engineer, you will develop the real-time software stack that makes our robots move, balance, and manipulate the world with precision and reliability, bridging hardware and AI from R&D to production.

You will design fast state estimation and control algorithms, create clean hardware abstractions, calibrate actuators and full-body kinematics, and build