Senior Robotics Controls Engineer — Real-Time & Hardware-In-Loop

Industrial Next (YC W22); San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

Meaningful equity

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage

Relocation support to SF Bay Area

Job summary

Industrial Next (YC W22) is seeking an experienced professional in San Francisco for a role focused on low-level control systems for robotic platforms. You will design and integrate control systems, working on real hardware alongside a small, dedicated team.

Applicants should have a strong background in robotics with hands-on experience in real-time control system design. The position offers competitive salary, meaningful equity, and relocation support.

Qualifications

• 5+ years controls work shipped on real robots (industrial, mobile, or humanoid).
• Experience with whole-body or coordinated multi-system control on real hardware.
• Comfortable across the stack from motor-level current control up to task-space trajectory tracking.

Responsibilities

• Design low-level control across wheeled-humanoid and mobile-manipulator platforms.
• Integrate vendor SDKs and tune compliance, impedance, and force control.
• Build the safety, interlock, and hardware-in-the-loop test layer.

Skills

Real-time control system design

Compliance / impedance / force control

Industrial arm SDK experience

Low-level integration

Education

BS in EE / MechE / Robotics / CS

Tools

EtherCAT

ROS2 control stack

Job description

Industrial Next (YC W22) is seeking an experienced professional in San Francisco for a role focused on low-level control systems for robotic platforms. You will design and integrate control systems, working on real hardware alongside a small, dedicated team.

Applicants should have a strong background in robotics with hands-on experience in real-time control system design. The position offers competitive salary, meaningful equity, and relocation support.