# Controls Engineer at Physical Intelligence

- Company: Physical Intelligence
- What the company does: Backed by General Catalyst, Khosla and Sequoia.
- Company website: https://www.physicalintelligence.company/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-01-07
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/physicalintelligence/c8f9e9aa-8801-4916-9b1f-2c0bd5f072f9
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/physical-intelligence-controls-engineer/

## About the role

Design & implement control algorithms: PID, LQR, MPC, inverse dynamics, and feedforward controllers. Build & validate models: Create and refine physical and inverse dynamics models for simulation and control design.

## What they're looking for

- Background in manipulation or mobile robotic platforms
- Exposure to robot learning or integrating learned policies into control stacks
- Ability to design or refine custom actuator or sensor hardware
- Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records

Tags: Software Engineering