Staff Robotics Control Engineer - Whole-Body Control (Wheeled Platform)
HumanoidHumanoid Robotics company
London, United KingdomLead
Prime Movers Lab
Schaeffler
Bosch
Fubon Financial Holding Venture Capital
Aglaé Ventures
New
About the role
TL;DR
Lead whole-body control evolution for a humanoid robot platform.
- •Humanoid is building the world's most capable, commercially-scalable, and safe humanoid robots.
- •We are looking for a Staff Robotics Control Engineer to lead the evolution of whole-body control for our Wheeled Alpha platform.
- •Key Responsibilities Lead the evolution of the Wheeled Alpha whole-body controller, including task formulation, prioritization, weighting, and constraint handling.
- •Coordinate wheeled base, torso, and dual-arm motion within a single whole-body formulation.
- •Own the constraint layer, including self-collision avoidance, joint and velocity limit guarding, and singularity handling.
- •Drive the evolution toward predictive formulations, evaluating and developing MPC-based whole-body control.
- •Requirements Deep, demonstrable expertise in optimisation-based whole-body control (hierarchical and weighted QP formulations).
- •Strong command of classical WBC toolkit and working knowledge of MPC formulations.
- •Deployed whole-body controllers on real high-DoF hardware.
- •Practical fluency with QP/NLP solvers and their failure modes.
- •Strong dynamic modelling foundations.
Required skills
C++PythonGitLinux
Domain expertise
deeptech
Benefits & perks
Competitive equity, 30+ paid days off, Private healthcare, Pension scheme, Free daily breakfast, catered lunch, and snacks
Tech stack
C++PythonGitLinux