# Controls Systems Engineer at Persona AI

- Company: Persona AI
- What the company does: Backed by 500 Global.
- Company website: https://personastudios.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Houston, TX
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-08-27
- Apply by: 2026-10-11
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/persona.ai/db6d05fe-f579-413a-b64f-e68c560871e2
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/persona-ai-controls-systems-engineer/

## About the role

We're looking for a Controls Systems Engineer to design, implement, and tune the real-time control loops that make our actuators and joints move precisely, safely, and reliably. This is the layer that sits closest to the hardware — motor drive, current and torque control, position/velocity control, and the embedded software that runs it on real silicon, in real time, on a real robot.

## What they're looking for

- Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field
- 5+ years of experience designing and implementing low-level motor or actuator control systems (less with an advanced degree focused on controls)
- Strong fundamentals in classical controls: PID, cascaded control loops, feedforward, and frequency-domain or state-space analysis
- Experience with time synchronized torque control of motors (BLDC/PMSM, FOC, current/torque control) or other electromechanical actuator force control
- Experience working with encoders, strain gauges, or other analog or digital sensors
- Hands-on embedded firmware experience in C or C++ on microcontrollers or DSPs, including real-time constraints and interrupt-driven code

Tags: Persona AI