Job Description Responsibilities

Design, implement, and tune real-time controllers for robot arms and multi-fingeredhands

Bring up new robot hardware: ros2_control hardware interfaces and drivers, high-ratecontrol loops, fault handling and safety limits, and integration with teleoperation anddata-collection pipelines

Perform system identification of arms and hands

Validate controller and model accuracy against hardware, quantify and reduce thesim-to-real gaps

Build controller and hardware benchmarks and produce clear, data-driven reports

Partner closely with policy researchers to deploy RL and behavior-cloning policies onhardware — tune the controller/policy interface, diagnose failures, and close the loop ontraining-environment fidelity

Write clean, tested code and document systems for a cross-functional team

Skills and Requirements Minimum Qualifications

BS in Mechanical, Electrical, or Computer Engineering, Robotics, or a related field, orequivalent practical experience

3+ years of hands-on experience implementing and tuning controllers on real robothardware

Strong grounding in robot dynamics and control: rigid-body dynamics,impedance/admittance control, operational-space control, stability and bandwidthanalysis

Proficiency in C++ and Python

Experience with ROS 2 (ros2_control preferred) and real-time Linux-based robotsystems

Experience with experimental data analysis: designing tests, fitting models, andinterpreting frequency- and time-domain responses

Preferred Qualifications





MS or PhD in robotics or controls

Experience with dexterous or multi-fingered hands, tendon-driven or backdrivableactuators, or torque-controlled arms

System identification and model calibration for physics simulators (MuJoCo, Isaac, orsimilar); familiarity with domain randomization

Experience deploying learned policies (RL, imitation learning) on hardware, or workingalongside policy researchers

Familiarity with rigid-body dynamics libraries and optimization tooling

Experience with teleoperation systems (VR or exoskeleton-based) and data-collectionpipelines

Experience with force/torque sensing, tactile sensing, or motor-current-based forceestimation

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📌 Robotics R&D Engineer III (Redmond)
🏢 Insight Global
📍 Redmond