Your New Role and Team
Sanctuary, a world leader in building AI-based control systems for humanoid
robots, is looking to hire a skilled and motivated Robotics Controls Engineer.
The Robotics Controls Engineer is a crucial part of our team, supporting
development and improvement of our control software stack. You’ll contribute to
the codebase that links our motion control stack to the real-time and embedded
systems.
The best candidates for this role have excellent background in control theory
for robotics, programming skills, hands-on experience implementing control
algorithms on hardware, as well as writing interfaces for robotics systems.
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Success Criteria
- Support design reviews, requirement setting and definition of specifications
of robotic systems and subsystems.
- Support on the definition of hardware testing from external suppliers.
- Write, document, deploy, and maintain software for robot motion control.
- Understand the current control software stack and propose incremental
improvements.
- Develop intuitive APIs that balance the needs of different stakeholders.
- Bring hands-on experience of software and hardware debugging of complex
robotics systems.
- Gain experience designing control systems that support different input
sources (e.g., teleoperation, learned policies, motion planners).
- Effectively evaluate the impact of different solution methods on system
performance, particularly with respect to timing and resource constraints.
Your Experience
Qualifications
- MS or Ph.D. in robotics or a related field (Computer Science, Electrical
Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, etc.) or equivalent industry experience.
- Demonstrated experience writing software for robot control on hardware.
Skills
- Experience defining requirements and specifications for robotic systems and
subsystems.
- Controls experience working with rigid multibody robotic systems.
- Software development skills; able to write efficient, scalable, and
maintainable code in C++ and Python for robot control.
- Experience with at least one kinematics and dynamics library for robotics
(e.g., Pinocchio, Drake, Mujoco, etc.).
- Strong understanding of ROS2.
- Experience working on complex software stacks as part of a team.
- Familiarity with documentation and project management tools such as
Confluence and Jira.
- Knowledge of ros2_control.
- Experience in trajectory optimization, planning and optimal control.
- Experience using real time solvers for a range of convex and non-convex
problems (specific interest in QPs, SQPs, MIPs, and SDPs) is an asset.
- Experience with off-the-shelf robotic hardware is an asset
- Experience in reinforcement learning for control is an asset.
Traits
- Above all else, a consistently positive attitude and a willingness to do
whatever it takes to create robust solutions to mission objectives.
- Successful candidates will be a proponent of personal responsibility for
themselves and their teammates.
- Empathetic listener with conflict resolution capabilities.
- Consistent bias for action, communication, and interpersonal savvy.
- Self-motivated and able to solve problems independently.
- Great communicator - able to clearly articulate and balance needs of
stakeholders.
- Mission driven and passionate about bringing human-like intelligence to
machines.
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Working at Sanctuary AI
Sanctuary AI is an equal opportunity employer; employment with Sanctuary AI is
governed based on skills, competence, and qualifications and will not be
influenced in any way by race, color, religion, gender, national
origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation,
gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability, or any other
legally protected status. In 2023, Sanctuary AI moved into a state-of-the-art
office facility and has been recognized by LinkedIn as a Top Startup company.
Compensation and Benefits
Sanctuary offers a market-leading compensation package that includes competitive
salaries, equity stakes, and a full suite of benefits for permanent employees,
encompassing health coverage, paid time off, cutting-edge work facilities, and
worksite flexibility by role. Our commitment to fairness ensures that our total
compensation consistently surpasses market standards.
About Sanctuary AI
Founded in 2018, Sanctuary builds humanoid robots and a novel control system for
them that integrates symbolic logic and reasoning with data-driven robot
foundation models. We use our robots to collect vision, audio, touch, and
proprioception data from the perspective of the robot while they perform
real-world work tasks. We use that data to train multimodal robot foundation
models. Because our systems are vertically integrated, we can design, deploy,
and refine at scale. Our mission is to create the world's first human-like
intelligence in general-purpose robots.
Recruiting and Employment Agency Notice:
Recruitment and hiring is conducted internally by Sanctuary AI. We are not
seeking or soliciting any new agency partnerships or agreements at this
time. Any employment agency or professional recruiter (“Agency”) that provides
an unsolicited resume(s) or otherwise presents a prospective job candidate
through the Sanctuary AI career site or directly to any Sanctuary AI employee,
irrevocably grants to Sanctuary AI the unrestricted right to engage, hire, or
contract with that candidate at Sanctuary AI's sole discretion without any
compensation to the Agency. We appreciate your interest in working together, and
should the need arise our Talent Acquisition team will contact any external
firms directly.
