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title: "Robotics Control Engineer - Whole Body Control"
company: "Xdof"
company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/xdof"
url: "https://www.remjobs.works/job/xdof-robotics-control-engineer-whole-body-control-d3fcaf04-f49c-4056-b9c3-e33cc3646956"
apply_url: "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/xdof/d5a4d112-7706-4ef3-8e92-b0c38c3302c2"
workplace: hybrid
location: "San Mateo Hybrid"
employment_type: full-time
seniority: mid
role: ai-machine-learning
region: united-states
skills: ["cpp", "python"]
date_posted: 2026-08-21T02:43:20.337Z
first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-09-05T08:28:15.435Z
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# Robotics Control Engineer - Whole Body Control

**Xdof** · San Mateo Hybrid

Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/xdof/d5a4d112-7706-4ef3-8e92-b0c38c3302c2

## About Xdof

Defining motion for autonomous systems.

## About the role

At XDOF, we're at an inflection point. Frontier labs are racing to build general-purpose robots, and high-quality training data is the bottleneck. We're building the foundation behind the foundation models — the data collection systems, operational capability, exabyte-scale data warehouse, and software toolchain — to help our partners drive the field forward.

Great data starts with great hardware behavior. We're looking for a Robotics Controls Engineer to build the high-performance control systems that make our dexterous manipulators and humanoid robots move safely, precisely, and repeatably — because every teleoperation session, every collection run, and every downstream model depends on robots that respond exactly as commanded.

**What You'll Do**

Controls engineers are the bridge between robot hardware and reliable, high-quality motion. Sample projects include:

- implementing joint-space and Cartesian impedance / torque control for 7+ DoF robotic arms

- building whole-body control (WBC) for highly redundant humanoids with mobile bases, arms, and actuated torsos

- designing optimization-based controllers: QP formulations, inverse dynamics, task/null-space control, and redundancy resolution

- developing collision-aware motion and control, including self-collision avoidance and environment constraints

- implementing and integrating real-time control software on physical robots, from simulation through hardware deployment

- tuning and validating controller performance across diverse manipulation and locomotion tasks

- working closely with data collection operators and hardware teams to diagnose and resolve control-related failure modes during teleoperation and autonomous runs**About You**

Baseline skills:

- bachelor's or master's degree (or equivalent experience) in robotics, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, or a related field

- strong fundamentals in robot dynamics, kinematics, and feedback control

- hands-on experience implementing controllers on real robotic systems, not just in simulation

- strong C++ and/or Python, and comfort working with real-time robotics systems

- You might be a good fit if you:

- have experience with whole-body control, operational-space control, MPC, or optimization-based control

- come from a background in humanoid robotics, manipulation, legged robotics, or advanced industrial robot control

- have worked on real-time embedded control software and understand the constraints of deploying to physical hardware

- are very comfortable working in 0→1 environments

- are mission-driven and passionate about robotics: work at XDOF is fast-paced and constant. We hope you love what you're going to be doing, because you'll be doing a lot of it!

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