Controls Engineer, Robotics

Our robots work in customer facilities with people nearby. The code that decides how an arm moves, how fast, and how it stops is what keeps those people safe. We're looking for a controls engineer to own it.

The work is controls: joint limits, speed limits, stopping distances and stopping times, contact and collision behavior, the loop that turns a motion command into torque, and the monitoring that detects when that loop misbehaves. It is also software work. The code lives in a large codebase that changes every week, and the safety-critical parts of it have to be written, organized, tested, and reviewed so they stay correct through those changes. The person we want has worked in a codebase where a mistake had physical consequences, has written and organized a lot of code there, and is comfortable with the physics underneath it.