Staff Controls Software Engineer
HumanoidVisit Humanoid website
UK-based AI and robotics company building commercially scalable humanoid robots for industrial deployment.
London, United Kingdom
Funding history
About Humanoid
Humanoid develops industrial humanoid robots and its proprietary KinetIQ AI framework for real-world tasks across manufacturing, logistics, and related environments.
Skills
C#Ci/CdControl TheoryDynamicsEigenFailoverForce ControlGitImitation LearningImpedance ControlKinematicsLinuxMujocoPerformance OptimizationPinocchioPlacoPythonPytorchReal-Time SystemReinforcement LearningRelease ManagementRoboticsRos2RtosSafety-Critical SystemSoftware ArchitectureTest AutomationWhole-Body Control
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will design and maintain real-time control architectures, productionize algorithms, integrate control software, build testing and release systems, enforce safety and performance metrics, and mentor engineers through hands-on technical leadership.
Requirements
- B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Robotics, Control, Computer Engineering, or a related field
- 10+ years developing robotics control software for real-time systems
- Expertise in modern C++ and Python
- Strong background in control theory, robot kinematics and dynamics, and real-time control systems
- Experience deploying and validating control software in simulation and on physical robots
- Experience with software architecture, Git, CI/CD, and automated testing
- Debugging, profiling, and performance optimization skills
- Experience shipping production-quality robotics software
- Experience with release management and cross-team integration
Responsibilities
- Design and maintain modular real-time control architectures
- Implement high-performance control loops and middleware interfaces
- Productionize control algorithms
- Define interfaces between motion planning, control, and hardware layers
- Translate research prototypes into scalable, testable control software
- Apply CI/CD, code review, testing, and documentation practices
- Define and enforce reliability, latency, and safety metrics
- Lead real-time control software integration across embedded and Linux systems
- Develop simulation, hardware-in-the-loop, regression, and performance testing frameworks
- Drive release and version management
- Profile, benchmark, and validate software on robotic hardware
- Implement fail-safes, watchdogs, and redundancy mechanisms
- Mentor engineers and guide control-software architecture and quality standards
Benefits
- 23 days of annual leave
- 15 days of paid sick leave
- Paid company holidays
- Fully funded private healthcare for UK employees
- Equity
- Pension scheme with 8% total contribution
- Free daily breakfast, catered lunch, and snacks in-office