Controls Engineer, Robotics

Sanctuary in Vancouver, BC

Your New Role and Team

Our Controls Engineering team is looking to hire an experienced Controls Engineer. Reporting to the Controls Engineering Lead, you’ll gain a comprehensive understanding of our existing control system and iterate to improve our testing cadence and performance.

The best candidates for this role have excellent quality programming skills and hands-on experience with developing real-time robotic systems. As a member of the Controls Team, you will have the opportunity to work with a wide variety of hardware and software systems, tackling unique challenges like deploying control strategies to run actuators. You’ll be responsible for writing, debugging, maintaining, and documenting code. Experience in AI is helpful, but not required for this role.

Working at Sanctuary
Sanctuary is an equal opportunity employer; employment with Sanctuary is governed based on skills, competence, and qualifications and will not be influenced in any way by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability, or any other legally protected status.
Benefits
Full time employees enjoy medical/dental/vision, life insurance, wellness programs, stock options, paid time off (vacation, paid holidays, sick time, and parental leave), scheduling and worksite flexibility by role, and more.

About Sanctuary
Founded in 2018 by Geordie Rose, Suzanne Gildert, Olivia Norton, and Ajay Agrawal, Sanctuary is a Vancouver, Canada-based company. Sanctuary is on a mission to create the world’s first human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots that will help us work more safely, efficiently, and sustainably. And in the not-too-distant future, help us explore, settle, and prosper in outer space.

Members of the Sanctuary team founded D-Wave (a pioneer in the quantum computing industry), Kindred (first use of reinforcement learning in a production robot), and the Creative Destruction Lab (pioneered a revolutionary method for the commercialization of science for the betterment of humankind). The team has experience launching market-defining innovations rooted in previously unsolved and deep scientific problems.




Recruiting & Employment Agency Notice:
Recruitment and hiring is conducted internally by Sanctuary. We are not seeking or soliciting any new agency partnerships or agreements at this time . Any employment agency or professional recruiter (“Agency”) that provides an unsolicited resume(s) or otherwise presents a prospective job candidate through the Sanctuary career site or directly to any Sanctuary employee, irrevocably grants to Sanctuary the unrestricted right to engage, hire, or contract with that candidate at Sanctuary’s sole discretion without any compensation to the Agency. We appreciate your interest in working together, and should the need arise our Talent Acquisition team will contact any external firms directly.

    • Bring hands-on experience in designing, implementing, documenting, and maintaining a real-time framework to robot controls systems
    • Gain cutting edge career experience as you build and monitor the performance of controls architecture and diagnose/resolve technical issues with the world’s first human-like intelligence in a general-purpose robots

    • Your Skills & Qualifications
      Qualifications:
    • MS or Ph.D. in mechanical engineering, robotics or related field or have equivalent industry experience
    • Practical experience with controls system development, modeling, and hands-on implementation
    • Expert capabilities in Classic Controls, Feedback/Feedforward controllers, Cascade control systems, and other forms of control
    • Experience working on complex software engineering problems as part of a team
    • Experience using fast control prototyping systems such as speedgoat, xPC, or any other type of real-time machine

    • Skills:
    • Having a very good understanding of dynamics of the physical systems (hardware to be controlled) such as hydraulics and electro-mechanical systems
    • Expert-level skills in Matlab/Simulink/Simulink Real Time
    • Competent skills in C/C++ and/or Python programming in Linux OS
    • Familiarity with ROS/ROS2

    • Traits:
    • Above all else, a consistently positive attitude and a willingness to do whatever it takes to create robust solutions to complex problems
    • Optimistic listening and conflict resolution capabilities
    • Demonstrated ability to influence others without authority
    • Eager to take on new challenges with tenacity and positivity
    • Patience, persistence, and attention to detail when resolving performance issues
    • You would rather work on robots than do pretty much anything else

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