3 days ago
Base Salary
$180k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and tune precision pointing and tracking control loops operating from sensor input to actuator commands at hundreds of hertz.
- Develop state estimation and sensor fusion using IMUs, encoders, and vision feedback.
- Model gimbal, mount, and actuator dynamics and compensate for resonance, backlash, friction, saturation, and other nonlinearities.
- Build and maintain controls simulation and hardware-in-the-loop test infrastructure.
- Integrate controls with tracking systems and characterize performance on physical hardware in laboratory and field settings.
- Document controls architecture, tuning approaches, and engineering standards.
Requirements
- At least 4 years of robotics experience, including hands-on design and tuning of closed-loop controllers on motion hardware.
- Experience with servo drives, brushless motors, encoders, and IMUs.
- Strong grounding in classical and state-space control, including LQR and MPC, applied to physical systems.
- Practical state-estimation and hardware sensor-fusion experience using methods such as Kalman, EKF, UKF, or complementary filters.
- Experience with system identification, frequency-domain tuning, resonance characterization, and real-time control-loop latency and jitter.
- Proficiency in modern C++ for real-time control and Python or MATLAB/Simulink for modeling, simulation, and analysis.
- Experience validating simulations against real hardware and collaborating across mechanical, electrical, and software disciplines.
- Background in precision motion, gimbals, target tracking, aerospace, or related control systems is valuable.
Benefits
- Base salary of $180,000 to $200,000 annually.
- On-site role in San Francisco, California.
- Visa sponsorship is not available.