Senior Robotics Control Systems Engineer

The role

You will own control quality across robotic products by working at the boundary between hardware and software. You will design control-loop benchmarking, model actuators, and implement safety-rated monitoring functions.

What you will do

• Own control performance including smooth motion, tracking accuracy, and high-fidelity impedance control
• Design and own control-loop benchmarking and validation across CAN and EtherCAT
• Analytically model in-house actuator Motor -> Gearbox -> Feedback Plants and verify through physical testing
• Implement and document safety-rated monitoring and stop functions to certification rigor
• Ensure maximal servo performance while maintaining stability and rejecting disturbances
• Debug complex system-level issues spanning software, firmware, electrical, or component behavior
• Build test and diagnostic tooling for tuning, hardware characterization, and fault injection
• Act as a technical bridge between hardware and software and mentor engineers

Required qualifications

• Strong classical controls fundamentals including analytical and heuristic tuning, plant and controller modelling, gain and phase margin analysis, bandwidth modelling and testing
• Real-time signal processing and filtering
• Understanding of firmware, electrical, and mechanical systems
• 5+ years of proven experience modelling control systems, tuning control loops on real-world systems, and validating models through physical experiments on benchtop equipment
• Written and verbal communication skills

Nice to have

• Experience with modern control techniques like MPC
• Experience with sensors, especially encoders, and sensor fusion
• Experience interfacing with robotic motion planning systems
• Electrical and board-level experience with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and DMMs

About the company

Standard Bots aims to lower the barrier to entry to real-world automation. Their robotics, vision, and networking platform is the basis for the company's goals.