Staff Robot Controls Integration Engineer

Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Mechanical, or closely related engineering discipline.

8+ Years of experience working on at least one of the following areas:

Hands-on motor controls : You've implemented or tuned PID loops, field-oriented control, torque control, or trajectory tracking on real hardware. Comfortable reasoning about poles, stability, and bandwidth.

Real-time systems and firmware : You understand interrupt latency, real-time constraints, and the gap between algorithm and implementation. Experience with real-time Linux, microcontroller programming, or RTOS.

Communication protocols : Solid experience with CAN, CAN FD, or EtherCAT — protocol analysis, debugging, timing verification. Familiar with CANoe, Vector tooling, or oscilloscope-based signal capture.

Sensor integration and validation : You've brought up encoders, IMUs, force/torque sensors. Understand aliasing, noise filtering, calibration, and how sensor delay cascades into control performance.

HiL and SIL : You design tests that matter — fault-injection tests that probe stability margins, saturation behavior, and graceful degradation. Experience with Simulink, FPGA platforms, or equivalent.

Control theory : You understand dynamics, Laplace transforms, Bode plots, poles and zeros. Can read a control diagram and reason about closed-loop behavior and system stability.

Experience with EtherCAT, SOEM, Beckhoff hardware, or TwinCAT real-time platforms.

Proficiency in MATLAB/Simulink for modeling, parameter identification, and control-system analysis.

Python or C++ for test automation, firmware tooling, and data post-processing.

Experience with motor characterization: cogging torque analysis, friction modeling, thermal dynamics.

Familiarity with functional safety standards and how control performance ties into safety requirements.

Prior experience supporting fielded systems, turning customer-reported instabilities into durable firmware fixes.