Controls Engineer
Physical Intelligence, San Francisco
The role
As a Controls Engineer, you will design and implement the algorithms that make PI’s robots behave predictably, smoothly, and safely under varied and uncertain conditions.
The team
The Controls team builds and tunes the core feedback and model-based algorithms, real-time loops, simulations, and actuator/sensor subsystems that make PI’s robots stable and reliable. They work closely with research, hardware, and operations to debug complex system behaviors and ensure our learning-based systems operate under strict real-time constraints in unpredictable environments.
What you will do
- Design & implement control algorithms: PID, LQR, MPC, inverse dynamics, and feedforward controllers.
- Build & validate models: Create and refine physical and inverse dynamics models for simulation and control design.