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This is a high-ownership role working closely with the CEO and founding team across the full mechatronic stack, from low-level motor control and sensor fusion through to the higher-level behaviors that make the robot feel responsive and intentional in the real world.\n\nIn this role, you will:\n\nDesign and tune control systems for actuated subsystems including motion control, feedback, and dynamic response.\n\nIntegrate actuators, sensors, encoders, and embedded electronics into reliable mechatronic assemblies.\n\nDevelop control algorithms in C++ and/or Python from simulation through deployment on hardware.\n\nBuild and maintain URDF models and simulation environments aligned with the physical platform.\n\nDiagnose real-world control issues such as instability, backlash, latency, drift, and sensor noise.\n\nCollaborate with animators, mechanical and electrical engineers on actuator selection, structure, sensing strategy and motion fine-tuning.\n\nDevelop motion primitives and expressive behaviors that shape how the robot moves.\n\nMaintain documentation of control architecture and tuning decisions as the system evolves.\n\nYou may be a good fit if you:\n\nHave a Masters/PhD (or equivalent experience) in robotics, mechatronics, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, or a related field.\n\nHave hands‑on experience tuning control systems on real robotic hardware.\n\nAre fluent in C++ and/or Python for robotics or embedded control work.\n\nHave experience with ROS or ROS2 and real‑time robotics software stacks.\n\nAre comfortable working with CAD tools such as SolidWorks or Onshape.\n\nHave experience with actuators, motor drivers, encoders, and IMUs across the full signal chain.\n\nAre strong at hardware debugging using tools like oscilloscopes and signal tracing.\n\nHave experience building URDF models and working with simulators such as Gazebo, MuJoCo, or Isaac Sim.\n\nAre comfortable working in environments where system architecture is still evolving.\n\nHave experience with impedance control, torque control, or whole‑body control on physical robots.\n\nHave experience with sensor fusion, state estimation, or Kalman filtering on hardware systems.\n\nHave embedded programming experience on microcontrollers or DSPs in a controls context.\n\nHave experience shaping expressive or character‑driven robot motion.\n\nYou will be a strong fit, if you:\n\nAre drawn to the physical reality of robotics. 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