Robotics Engineer, Staff

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and tune the control stack for EDDA's motion system, including actuators and gimbaled subsystems.
• Develop and maintain high-bandwidth control loops, including PID, feedforward, and model-predictive control.
• Develop and maintain state estimation pipelines that fuse inertial measurement unit data, encoder feedback, and perception output into a consistent target track.
• Characterize and model mechanical nonlinearities (backlash, cogging, stiction, inertia, structural modes) and develop compensation strategies.
• Build calibration, logging, and replay tools to support field performance analysis.
• Continuously improve slew rate, settling time, and pointing accuracy as the hardware platform evolves.

Requirements

• 6+ years of professional experience in production controls engineering within motion systems, robotics, aerospace, or comparable real-time domains.
• Strong command of modern control theory, including state-space methods, observers, and model-predictive control.
• Proficiency in Rust, C, C++ for real-time code, and Python for analysis and tooling.
• Demonstrated track record of bringing a complex physical system to production-grade performance.
• U.S. citizenship and ability to pass a background check.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with gimbal, turret, or pointing-system design.
• System identification and model-based control experience.
• Hands-on experience with motor drivers, CAN bus, and RTOS targets.
• Experience with ROS 2 or DDS middleware in production.
• Active security clearance, or eligibility to obtain one.
• Prior defense startup experience.
• Passion for building robots or engineering projects as a hobby.