Senior Robotics Controls Engineer - Real-Time Motion & AI

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

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive equity

Health, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off and holidays

Job summary

1X is building humanoid home robots that move, learn, and assist with chores. This Senior Robotics Controls Engineer will own the real-time software stack enabling precise movement, balance, and manipulation across high-DOF hardware.

You will bridge hardware and AI layers, develop fast state estimation and control algorithms, and deliver robust tools for calibration, diagnostics, and production readiness as we scale from R&D to wide-scale deployment.

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.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

C++ in Linux

State estimation

Whole-body control

Hardware integration

Motor control

Linear algebra

Optimization

Tools

ROS2

DDS

Yocto

Real-time Linux

Job description

1X is building humanoid home robots that move, learn, and assist with chores. This Senior Robotics Controls Engineer will own the real-time software stack enabling precise movement, balance, and manipulation across high-DOF hardware.

You will bridge hardware and AI layers, develop fast state estimation and control algorithms, and deliver robust tools for calibration, diagnostics, and production readiness as we scale from R&D to wide-scale deployment.