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Senior Robotics Engineer

Mbodi AI
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New York City, NY$150k - $250k + equityFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior Robotics Engineer role at Mbodi AI, an AI robotics startup focused on embodied AI for robots that learn from natural language. The role spans robotics software, controls, hardware integration, and production deployment to turn high-level task intents into reliable robot behavior on real hardware.

Responsibilities

  • Motion & Control: Build and improve robot motion and feedback systems, including trajectory execution, feedback control, latency compensation, and real-time corrections.
  • System Performance: Diagnose and improve tracking error, oscillation, latency, stability, motion quality, and robustness using strong first-principles intuition.
  • OEM Robot Integration: Build motion execution around industrial robot controllers, accounting for joint limits, calibration, timing, motion constraints, and fault handling.
  • Lead System Integration: Integrate our platform with industrial robots, sensors, network interfaces, safety I/O, and other hardware.
  • Deploy and Commission: Own robot bring-up, validation, commissioning, and on-site issue resolution in production environments.
  • Full-Stack Debugging: Debug failures across controls, robotics software, networking, calibration, and hardware.

Qualifications

  • Robotics Systems Expertise: 3+ years building and deploying robotics software on physical systems, with strong Python and C++ skills.
  • Controls Fundamentals: Strong understanding of feedback control, system dynamics, stability, trajectory tracking, and real-time robotic systems. Experience with PID, feedforward, state-space control, LQR, or MPC is a plus.
  • Strong Systems Intuition: Ability to reason about robot behavior across software, controls, timing, calibration, and hardware.
  • Hardware & Commissioning Experience: Hands-on experience integrating, tuning, and commissioning robotic systems in real-world environments.
  • Startup DNA: High agency, strong bias toward action, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, execution-focused environment.

Skills

Required:PythonC++Robotics SystemsControls & DynamicsHardware Integration
Nice to have:ROS2Industrial Robots
Last updated Aug 26, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About Mbodi AI

Make Industrial Robots Learn Like Humans

Teach robots new skills through natural language and run reliably in production in minutes. Mbodi combines generative AI and agent orchestration, turning everyday language and quick demos into precise, reliable robot actions for industrial automation.

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