Senior Controls Engineer

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Own the control stack end-to-end: design, implement, and tune low-level controllers (i.e. PID,H2/H-infinity) and optimal control schemes (i.e. MPC) making sure they run reliably and high frequencies.
• Own fleet controls metrics and guarantee its performance: evaluate and implement metrics that guarantee high-tracking accuracy and consistent behavior for all of our robots.
• Build our robots’ autonomous navigation capabilities: implement optimization and sampling based path planning while localizing and mapping the environment using onboard sensors.
• Close the loop with the field: partner with research, hardware, and deployment teams to diagnose real-world failures and translate them into more robust onboard behavior.