Staff Software Engineer - Humanoid Controls
ApptronikRobotics company
Austin, United StatesLead
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About the role
TL;DR
Senior engineer to advance humanoid robot controls and AI integration.
- •Apptronik is developing AI-powered robots to support humanity, with a focus on human-centered robotics.
- •You will be a senior technical force multiplier on the Motion Control & Planning team, raising the quality of the robotics stack and tackling complex challenges.
- •Key Responsibilities Advance whole-body control across platforms, coordinating base/legs with upper-body manipulation.
- •Translate state-of-the-art control and learning methods into robust capability.
- •Expand robot performance envelope in speed, payload, reliability, and safety.
- •Set technical direction across the controls stack and mentor engineers.
- •Requirements Deep robotics fundamentals: kinematics, dynamics, state estimation, and control theory.
- •Proven expertise in whole-body control for legged or mobile systems.
- •Hands-on experience with learning-based control/reinforcement learning applied to robotics.
- •Strong software engineering in real-time C++ and Python for robotic systems.
Required skills
C++Python
Domain expertise
aerospacelogistics
Tech stack
PythonC++