Robotics & Control Engineer

About the Company

Rhoda AI is building the next generation of generalist intelligent robots. We own the full robotics stack from high-performance hardware and robot systems to the infrastructure and state-of-the-art foundation world models that control our robots.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain onboard control software including control loops, state estimation, and actuator interfaces
• Implement and tune motion planning and control systems including whole-body control, trajectory optimization, or model predictive control
• Collaborate with the AI/ML team to integrate learned control policies onto real hardware reliably and efficiently
• Contribute to system reliability, fault detection, and recovery logic for robust real-world operation
• Work directly with prototype hardware, debugging discrepancies between simulated and real behavior
• Support bring-up and field testing of new hardware revisions

Requirements

• 1+ years of experience building control software for robotic systems
• Strong software engineering fundamentals in C++, Python, or Rust
• Hands-on experience with motion planning, control loops, state estimation, or actuator interfaces
• Experience with ROS/ROS2 or similar robotics middleware
• Ability to debug across the full stack from driver-level to live hardware
• Comfort working directly with physical hardware in fast-moving environments

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in whole-body control, trajectory optimization, or model predictive control
• Experience building sim-to-real pipelines for reinforcement learning or imitation learning
• Familiarity with humanoid or legged robot platforms
• Exposure to learned perception or control models
• Prior work on early-stage hardware programs