Robotics

<h3>What You’ll Do</h3><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Design, implement, and optimize the embedded control stack for general-purpose robots</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Design motion planning and trajectory optimization algorithms for dynamic locomotion and manipulation</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Build real-time state estimation pipelines for pose, contact, and force sensing, fusing heterogeneous sensor data under noise and uncertainty</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Formulate and solve optimal control problems (nonlinear MPC, convex optimization, trajectory optimization) for high-performance and stable behavior</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Build modular and robust software frameworks enabling rapid iteration between simulation and hardware</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Lead debugging, tuning, and validation of controllers directly on physical robots</p></li></ul><h3>What You’ll Bring</h3><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Passion for your craft and demonstrated excellence in control systems engineering</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Extensive experience in designing, implementing, and deploying advanced control algorithms on real robotic system products (8+ years)</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Deep expertise in dynamics, kinematics, optimal control, and state estimation</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Strong command of hardware interfaces, sensors (IMUs, F/T sensors), and actuation technologies (motors, gearboxes, drivers)</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Production-level mastery of C++ with a track record of building reliable, safety-critical software</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Proven ability to bridge across hardware, software, and algorithms to deliver robust end-to-end systems</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">An open mind about the power of deep learning, reinforcement learning, and vision-language-action models as critical for general-purpose robotics</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Bonus:</strong> Experience shipping humanoid robots or whole-body control systems</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Bonus:</strong> Impactful published work in control theory, state estimation, or mathematical optimization</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Bonus: </strong>Familiarity with parallel computation on GPUs to accelerate optimization</p></li></ul><p>Find <a href="https://www.arbeitnow.co.uk">Jobs in United Kingdom</a> on Arbeitnow</a>