Embedded Controls Engineer

Job description

We're looking for a hands-on Embedded Controls Engineer to own firmware, plant identification, and closed-loop control for a novel actuator platform targeting humanoid robotics joints. This is not a tuning role on a known plant: you will define the control strategy for an actuator whose physics do not map cleanly to a standard motor-control playbook. What You'll Do: Firmware: Write and own the full embedded stack — state machine, multi-phase commutation, and fault handling on an ARM Cortex-M or similar MCU. Plant Characterization: Design and run frequency sweep experiments on live hardware; extract Bode plots, transfer functions, and the limits of existing modeling assumptions. Control Architecture: Develop the control approach required by the actuator — whether by adapting advanced controls methods or inventing new ones; validate in simulation, then implement and tune on hardware. Host Interface: Implement controls protocol; mirror the same command set a BLDC motor controller accepts where useful, without forcing the actuator into the wrong abstraction. System Integration: Own full system integration through Alpha and 1M-cycle endurance soak. Qualifications: Education: BS, MS, or...