Controls Engineer

As a Controls Engineer, you will design and implement the algorithms that make PI’s robots behave predictably, smoothly, and safely under varied and uncertain conditions. The Team The Controls team builds and tunes the core feedback and model-based algorithms, real-time loops, simulations, and actuator/sensor subsystems that make PI’s robots stable and reliable. They work closely with research, hardware, and operations to debug complex system behaviors and ensure our learning-based systems operate under strict real-time constraints in unpredictable environments. In This Role You Will -Design & implement control algorithms: PID, LQR, MPC, inverse dynamics, and feedforward controllers. -Build & validate models: Create and refine physical and inverse dynamics models for simulation and control design. -Develop real-time loops: Write and optimize runtime control loops, including neural-network-driven control. -Own robotic bring-up: Integrate and tune arms, mobile bases, teleop system