Robotics Controls Engineer

About the Company

Backed by leading climate and American dynamism investors, Terranova builds intelligent robotic systems to terraform the Earth itself - lifting land, restoring wetlands, and protecting critical infrastructure from floods and sea-level rise.

Responsibilities

• Develop and tune controllers (PID, MPC, optimal/robust control) for dynamic, nonlinear systems
• Build and validate physical models for simulation, hardware-in-the-loop testing, and autonomy
• Train and deploy ML models for perception, planning, or adaptive control (supervised or RL)
• Integrate algorithms with firmware and cloud teams, ensuring real-time safety and stability
• Profile, optimize, and verify performance under latency, jitter, and compute constraints

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field
• U.S. permanent residency required
• Ability to work in a high-intensity startup environment including long days and 6-day workweeks

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency in Python/C++ with PyTorch/JAX
• Experience with MPC, OSQP, or CasADi
• Knowledge of EKF, UKF, or factor graphs
• Experience with System ID and RL (PPO/SAC) with safety shields
• Experience with ROS2 and ONNX/TensorRT
• Skills in latency and jitter profiling
• PCB and embedded systems design skills