Genesis AI - Staff Software Engineer, Controls

Genesis is a global physical AI lab and full-stack robotics company looking for a Staff Software Engineer, Controls to design, implement, and optimize the embedded control stack for general-purpose robots.

Requirements

• Design, implement, and optimize the embedded control stack for general-purpose robots
• Design motion planning and trajectory optimization algorithms for dynamic locomotion and manipulation
• Build real-time state estimation pipelines for pose, contact, and force sensing, fusing heterogeneous sensor data under noise and uncertainty
• Formulate and solve optimal control problems (nonlinear MPC, convex optimization, trajectory optimization) for high-performance and stable behavior
• Build modular and robust software frameworks enabling rapid iteration between simulation and hardware
• Lead debugging, tuning, and validation of controllers directly on physical robots