Senior Robotics Engineer, Controls

The role

You will own the precision motion control stack for autonomous directed-energy systems. You will architect and tune control loops and develop state estimation and sensor fusion.

What you will do

• Architect and tune precision pointing and tracking control loops
• Develop state estimation and sensor fusion using IMU, encoder, and vision feedback
• Identify and model gimbal, mount, and actuator dynamics
• Compensate for resonance, friction, backlash, and saturation
• Build simulation and hardware-in-the-loop infrastructure
• Characterize system performance on hardware and in field tests
• Document controls standards and tuning practices

Required qualifications

• At least 4 years of robotics experience
• Hands-on design and tuning of closed-loop controllers on motion hardware
• Strong grounding in classical and state-space controls, including LQR and MPC
• Practical state estimation using Kalman-family or complementary filters
• Experience with system identification, frequency-domain tuning, structural resonance compensation, and closing the simulation-to-hardware gap
• Modern C++ for real-time control
• Python or MATLAB/Simulink for modeling and analysis
• Direct experience with servo drives, brushless motors, encoders, and IMUs
• Experience with real-time latency and jitter constraints
• Comfort working across mechanical, electrical, and software engineering

Nice to have

• gimbal, precision-pointing, tracking, or defense systems experience

Before you apply

• Visa sponsorship is not available

About the company

clera is a small engineering team developing autonomous directed-energy systems in the defense sector.