Robotics Engineer, Staff

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$116,543 U.S. median for this role

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+9.8% - Much faster than average

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

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Engineering From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Staff Plus From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Onsite From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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5 days From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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About this role

Robotics Engineer, Staff Austin | OnSite Location: Onsite - Austin, TX Employment Type: Full‑Time Job Title: Lead Robotics Engineer Company Overview 9 Mothers Defense develops AI-enabled systems to counter unmanned aerial threats. Our first product, EDDA, is an autonomous counter-sUAS point-defense platform designed to detect, track, and neutralize Group 1 drone threats. The company is headquartered in Austin, Texas. Position Summary 9 Mothers is seeking a Robotics Lead to own the control systems and motion engineering for our counter-sUAS platform. The Robotics Lead is responsible for the design, implementation, and tuning of the high-bandwidth control loops and state estimation that enable EDDA to track and engage small, fast-moving aerial targets with precision. This is a senior individual contributor position focused on control theory. Essential Duties - Design, implement, and tune the control stack for EDDA's motion system, including actuators and gimbaled subsystems. - Develop and maintain high-bandwidth control loops, including PID, feedforward, and model-predictive control as appropriate to the application. - Develop and maintain state estimation pipelines that fuse inertial measurement unit data, encoder feedback, and perception output into a consistent target track. - Characterize and model mechanical nonlinearities - including backlash, cogging, stiction, inertia, and structural modes - and develop compensation strategies. - Build calibration, logging, and replay tools to support field performance analysis. - Continuously improve slew rate, settling time, and pointing accuracy as the hardware platform evolves. Requirements - 6+ years of professional experience in production controls engineering within motion systems, robotics, aerospace, or comparable real-time domains.

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