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Principal Robotic Controls Engineer

Clera274 open roles

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$250,000 – $315,000 a year
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San Francisco
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Your applicationOpen nowPrincipal Robotic Controls EngineerClera · San Francisco

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ABOUT THE ROLE

Join a defense technology team developing autonomous directed-energy systems. As the senior technical anchor for controls, you will shape precision pointing and tracking architecture, from theory and simulation through real-world hardware testing.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Design control architecture for coarse gimbals and fine steering mirrors, including bandwidth allocation, multi-rate operation, and stage handoffs.

- Develop Kalman, interacting multiple model, and nonlinear filters that fuse radar, EO/IR, and inertial data into latency-compensated aimpoint estimates.

- Build line-of-sight stabilization and jitter-rejection methods, including inertial stabilization, feedforward, and adaptive or notch filtering for structural modes.

- Allocate pointing error budgets across jitter, bias, latency, and atmospheric effects, then validate precision performance against dynamic targets in field tests.

- Model plants and identify system dynamics for gimbals, mirrors, and structures, using simulation and hardware-in-the-loop validation.

- Analyze stability and robustness under disturbances and parameter variation, and integrate controls with tracking, engagement sequencing, and safety logic.

- Deploy control algorithms to embedded targets, collaborate on kilohertz-rate loops, and compare field test results with simulation predictions.

- Provide technical review across controls and sensor integration, and mentor engineers through hands-on technical leadership.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

- At least 10 years of experience closing loops on precision pointing, tracking, or stabilization hardware, with PhD-level depth in control theory and estimation.

- Proficiency in robust control, including H-infinity, mu-synthesis, and LQG, plus optimal estimation such as Kalman variants, IMM, and nonlinear observers.

- Experience shipping C or C++ control loops on embedded or RTOS targets, and working with MATLAB/Simulink and Python.

- Background in sensor fusion, multi-rate and sampled-data design, real-time hardware-in-the-loop validation, system identification, and structural dynamics.

- Ability to serve as the controls technical anchor on a small team. Directed-energy or high-energy laser experience and an active security clearance, or ability to obtain one, are advantages.

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

Base salary range: $250,000 to $315,000 annually. Equity and visa sponsorship details were not provided.

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On-site in San Francisco, United States.

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