About the role
About Mbodi
Mbodi makes industrial robots learn like humans. Our AI software plugs into any robot and lets anyone teach it new skills through conversation. We're backed by leading investors. Our founders bring experience from Google and the University of Pennsylvania's robotics lab, and we're building a small, senior team focused on hard problems in the physical world.
We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.
Role Overview
We’re looking for a Senior Robotics Engineer (Systems & Controls) to join our core team.
You will design and tune the systems that make robot behavior reliable under real-world constraints, turning task intent into stable, precise, production-grade motion on real hardware. This includes controller design, dynamics and system-response analysis, industrial hardware integration, and deployment through commissioning.
This is a hands-on role for someone equally comfortable with control design, motion behavior, hardware integration, and debugging across the full stack.
What You’ll Do
- Design and Tune Control Architectures: Design and tune controllers for robot motion using PID, feedforward, state-space methods, LQR, and MPC.
- First-Principles Modeling: Model system dynamics with block diagrams, transfer functions, and state-space methods; analyze stability, overshoot, settling time, damping, tracking error, and robustness.
- Motion Execution & OEM Interfacing: Build motion execution around industrial OEM controllers, accounting for latency, calibration error, joint limits, motion constraints, and fault handling.
- Integrate our platform with real-world industrial robotic systems across sensors, network interfaces, safety I/O, and hardware.
