Controls Engineer

Key Company Beliefs

High-quality, proprietary robotics data is the next foundation for generational AI companies (like Tesla FSD and ChatGPT).

Being nerd-sniped by maximizing an engineering metric is way less important than solving our customers’ biggest pain points.

An insane work ethic is required for outsized success—and you'll be rewarded for it.

What We’re Looking For

• You’ve controlled the motion of real-world hardware before, not just in simulation—e.g., nanometer-scale control of EUV lithography machines, or making a quadruped do a backflip
• You like to understand the entire system you’re working with—e.g., you care about details like time-sync between two processors, or the stiffness properties of the mechanical assembly
• You have a good understanding of model predictive control, nonlinear optimization, sensor fusion strategies
• You pride yourself on writing robust code that others can trust for years

How It Works

We are building affordable ($10k) wheeled humanoid robots to automate dangerous and repetitive tasks in manufacturing and logistics. Our robots are designed and built entirely in-house by an engineering team that led development of the Stretch robot at Boston Dynamics and key systems on the Tesla Model S, X, and Y production lines. Reflex robots are high-performance, low-inertia, and optimized for low-cost manufacturing. We’ve built the best real-time teleoperation system in the world, allowing a remote operator in South America to “play a video game” to control our robots at human-level speeds. This has allowed us to already ship robots with positive unit economics, and enables us to create a powerful human-intervention + RL product feedback loop. Our system allows us to collect high-quality demonstrations at scale—giving us the proprietary data engine needed to train increasingly capable AI systems. We're on track to build the largest robotics dataset in the world, which will serve as an important long-term advantage.

Compensation

$215,000–$300,000, depending on experience, skills, and qualifications