Kinematics, Planning & Control Engineer

Develop motion and control methods for precise robotic manipulation, from mathematical models and constrained planning to real-time execution. The work includes simulation and hardware validation, with a focus on producing behaviour that is stable, measurable, and safe under relevant constraints.

• Model serial, redundant, cable-driven, and constrained robotic arms.
• Implement forward and inverse kinematics, Jacobians, calibration, singularity handling, and redundancy resolution.
• Develop solvers that enforce motion constraints such as remote-centre, tool-axis, joint-limit, and workspace requirements.
• Generate and optimise smooth, precise trajectories that account for collisions.
• Build Cartesian, task-space, visual-servo, impedance, or admittance controllers.
• Integrate real-time execution with safety supervision, recovery logic, behaviour trees, and hardware interfaces; compare approaches and analyse failures.

• Strong C++ and Python programming skills.
• Solid understanding of robot kinematics, dynamics, Jacobians, and coordinate transformations.
• Experience implementing inverse kinematics, trajectory generation, or robot controllers.
• Knowledge of constrained optimisation and real-time numerical methods.
• Experience integrating simulators, sensors, actuators, and low-level robot interfaces.
• Ability to reproduce research methods and validate them with measurable experiments. ROS 2 experience is useful, alongside knowledge that applies beyond one framework.

• Experience with analytical or differential inverse kinematics, hierarchical quadratic programming, nonlinear optimisation, direct collocation, or model-predictive control.
• Familiarity with operational-space, impedance, or admittance control.
• Work involving remote-centre constraints, redundant manipulators, visual servoing, force control, cable-driven mechanisms, or safety-critical robots.

The engineer will own work across modelling, solver selection, control, testing, and hardware integration, and help establish how to verify precision and stability.