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Senior Robotics Control Systems Engineer

Standard Bots· Software
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Glen Cove, NY$180k - $215k + equity + bonusFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior controls engineer responsible for owning control quality across Standard Bots' robotic products, bridging hardware and software, ensuring smooth motion, high-fidelity impedance control, and robust validation across CAN and EtherCAT networks.

Responsibilities

  • Own control performance across our products: smooth motion, tracking accuracy, and high-fidelity impedance control
  • Design and own control-loop benchmarking and validation — loop rates, synchronization jitter, tracking error — across communication architectures such as CAN and EtherCAT
  • Analytically model in-house actuator Motor -> Gearbox -> Feedback Plants, verify model through physical testing, and determine appropriate Plant tolerance bands for production that maintains model fidelity
  • Implement and document safety-rated monitoring and stop functions to certification rigor
  • Ensure maximal servo performance while maintaining stability and rejecting disturbances and suppressing vibration under a broad range of dynamic loading conditions
  • Debug complex system-level issues where root cause may span software, firmware, electrical, or component behavior
  • Build test and diagnostic tooling for tuning, hardware characterization, and fault injection
  • Act as a technical bridge between hardware and software, advising leadership on technical strategy and mentoring engineers across teams

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of proven experience modelling control systems, tuning control loops on real-world systems, and validating models through physical experiments on benchtop equipment
  • Strong classical controls fundamentals — analytical and heuristic tuning, plant and controller modelling, gain and phase margin analysis, bandwidth modelling and testing — along with real-time signal processing and filtering
  • Enough understanding of firmware, electrical, and mechanical systems to find and resolve issues across borders between them
  • Clear communication skills (written and verbal)
  • Impact-driven mindset with preference for execution over idealism
  • Proactive simplicity focused on reliability and velocity

Skills

Required:Controls engineeringCross-domain fluencyCommunication
Last updated Aug 12, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Standard Bots

The all-in-one, most intuitive, most affordable industrial cobots.

Standard Bots is a company that designs and manufactures industrial collaborative robots (cobots), providing affordable, intuitive, AI-native robotic solutions for automation across various industries.

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