The Role
Actuator Controls Engineer responsible for hand calibration, diagnostics, and low-level control routines in an AI robotics company. Tasks include improving calibration, implementing diagnostics, and contributing to hand feedback control development.
Summary Generated by Built In
Figure is an AI Robotics company developing a general purpose humanoid. Our Humanoid is designed for corporate tasks targeting labor shortages and jobs that are undesirable or unsafe. We are based in Sunnyvale, CA and require 5 days/week in-office collaboration.
We are looking for an Actuator Controls Engineer to support hand calibration, diagnostics, and low-level control routines.
- Improve calibration, bring-up, and testing of our custom hands
- Implement diagnostics for detecting hand failures during bring-up and on-robot operation
- Contribute to hand feedback control development, characterization, modeling, and validation
- Experience developing robust embedded C++ and Python code
- Exposure to bring-up and control of robotic actuators
- Passionate about delivering a rock-solid hand control system
- Eager to push beyond conventional limits of system bring-up pace
- Bachelor’s degree in science or engineering
- Experience shipping software for real products
- Familiarity with robotic manipulators
- Interest in attending field tests
- Master’s degree in Controls
Top Skills
C++
Python
The Company
What We Do
Figure is an AI Robotics company building the world's first commercially viable autonomous humanoid robot. We are based in Sunnyvale, CA.
