Senior Motor Control Engineer

Highlights

• Own motor control for NEO home robot from simulation to full robot.
• Develop actuators enabling quiet, smooth and safe home robot movement.
• Ship humanoid robots that handle chores alongside real families.

What they offer

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Generous paid time off, company holidays, and parental leave
• 401(k) plan with company match (100% on the first 3% of contributions, 50% on the next 2%)
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and Health Savings Accounts (HSA) options
• Commuter benefits (transit and parking)
• Short-term and long-term disability, and life insurance
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for mental health, financial, and personal support
• Onsite snacks and catered lunches

Ideal candidate

A builder who blends deep control theory with hands-on bench validation and owns work end-to-end. You care about quiet, gentle, safe robots and measure before you tune to ship reliable hardware.

Requirements

• Design and tune field-oriented control with space-vector PWM and cascaded current, velocity and position loops
• Deliver torque and impedance control for backdrivable and compliant joints with verified torque accuracy
• Build motor parameter identification for Rs, Ld, Lq, flux linkage, inertia and friction
• Own encoder, Hall and resolver calibration and commutation offset procedures
• Reduce torque ripple and acoustic noise via cogging, ripple and friction compensation
• Maximize torque and speed on low-voltage bus with field weakening, MTPA and voltage-limit handling
• Define fault detection and safe torque-off for overcurrent, overvoltage, stall, overtemperature and sensor loss
• Familiarity with robot safety standards such as ISO 13482 and ISO 10218
• Sensorless control and observer design
• MS or PhD with research in motor drives or control