Engineering Manager - Controls

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Real-Time Control Software: Oversee development of the real-time control framework that runs on the robot, including robot drivers, state estimation, control interfaces, and the integration of learned policies and…
• Execution & Planning: Plan and drive the team's deliverables in coordination with other leads within the broader Controls roadmap.
• Team Leadership & Growth: Hire, manage, and mentor a team of controls and software engineers. Set clear priorities and ownership, give regular feedback, and develop engineers and tech leads into stronger technical…
• Quality & Release: Maintain a high bar for code quality through design reviews, code reviews, and automated testing, including simulation and hardware-in-the-loop regression tests.
• Iteration Speed: Keep the control software and tooling fast to work with, so engineers can quickly try new approaches to hard robotics problems in simulation and on hardware.
• Simulation & Hardware Validation: Ensure the control stack behaves consistently in simulation and on hardware, and support robot bring-up, calibration tooling, and root-cause analysis of issues found in testing and in…
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with the firmware, embedded software, learning, teleoperation, systems, and test teams to align on interfaces, priorities, and schedules, and represent the team in stakeholder…

Job requirements

• Controls Background: Strong foundation in robot kinematics, dynamics, and control, with hands-on experience in areas such as whole-body control, manipulation, or teleoperation.
• Real-Time Software: Experience building or leading development of real-time robotic software in C++, including multi-threaded execution, timing, and hardware interfaces.
• Hardware Deployment: A track record of taking control software from simulation to physical robots and supporting it in testing and deployment.
• People Leadership: Experience managing or leading engineers, including hiring, mentoring, performance feedback, and setting team priorities.
• Execution: Experience planning and delivering software in a fast-moving R&D environment, balancing near-term deliverables with long-term code health.
• MS or PhD in Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 4+ years of relevant industry experience in robot controls or robotics software (or 2+ years with a PhD), including 1+ year managing engineers and 2+ years as a technical lead.
• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer