Dyna Robotics
Controls Research Engineer
Redwood City, CA$180k–$290kfulltimemidAdded 2 days ago
About this role
Dyna Robotics seeks a Controls Research Engineer to develop whole-body control systems bridging AI reasoning and motor control for semi-humanoid robots. You'll own the sim-to-real pipeline, integrating learning-based controllers with hardware while optimizing robot performance across dynamic environments.
What you'll do
- Design and implement whole-body control frameworks for high-DOF semi-humanoid platforms
- Lead deployment of reinforcement learning and imitation learning controllers onto physical robots
- Perform system identification and dynamic characterization of actuators and robot systems
- Build and optimize high-fidelity simulations using MuJoCo, Isaac, or Pinocchio
- Collaborate with hardware engineers on robot platform design and control performance tradeoffs
- Develop observability tools for real-time control visualization and debugging
What they're looking for
- Whole-body control (WBC) and operational space control
- Rigid body kinematics, spatial math (SO(3)/SE(3)), dynamics libraries
- Reinforcement learning and imitation learning for robotics
- C++ and Python for real-time, latency-sensitive applications
- Robot simulation (MuJoCo, Drake, Pinocchio)
- System identification and dynamic characterization
- Motor control and embedded systems
- Hands-on hardware debugging and optimization
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