Robotics Controls Engineer
Hybrid (El Segundo, CA)$140k - $170k + equityFull-timePosted 1w ago
About the role
General Astronautics is building autonomous dexterous robotic arms for orbital inspection, repair, and assembly. The Robotics Controls Engineer will own the software, controls, and autonomy stack for dexterous manipulation in microgravity, spanning motion planning, controls, perception, simulation, and hardware integration, with opportunities to apply learning-based autonomy approaches.
Responsibilities
- Lead development of the robotics software and autonomy stack for dexterous manipulation in microgravity
- Develop and implement motion planning, trajectory generation, inverse kinematics, and feedback control algorithms for robotic manipulators
- Integrate perception, sensing, and state estimation to enable autonomous interaction with objects and spacecraft hardware
- Develop, train, evaluate, and deploy learning-based robotic policies for autonomous manipulation tasks
- Define performance metrics, test procedures, and verification plans for autonomous robotic operations
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Robotics, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or related discipline
- Strong understanding of robotic kinematics, dynamics, motion planning, and control theory
- Proficiency in C++ and/or Python for robotics software development
- Experience developing and deploying software on physical robotic systems
- Strong debugging, problem-solving, and systems integration skills
- Demonstrated ability to take ownership of complex technical problems from concept through working implementation
Skills
Required:Robotic kinematicsMotion planningControl theoryC++Python
Nice to have:ROS 2Perception / computer visionHardware-in-the-loop testingEmbedded GPU / NVIDIA Jetson
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About General Astronautics
Robotics for Space R&D
Robots for microgravity research and manufacturing.
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