Senior Robotics Engineer — Deployment & Controls (Mobile & Bipedal)

Senior Robotics Engineer — Deployment & Controls (Mobile & Bipedal) Help build the foundational control and deployment systems behind a robotics platform designed for real-world autonomy at scale Work on highly visible, technically ambitious problems spanning embodied AI, locomotion, deployment, and robot reliability Join a small, senior, hands‐on team where ownership is real and your work will directly shape the product and platform Be part of a company building both the intelligence layer and the physical robotic systems, creating unusually broad engineering impact Contribute at an early stage with the opportunity to influence how Ardia evolves across hospitality and future industry applications LOCATION ABOUT DATAMENTORS Datamentors is a robotics start-up building an agnostic orchestration platform and a family of proprietary robots — quadruped, mobile upper‐body and humanoid — assembled at our own factory in Caniçal, Madeira. We also develop custom Vision‐Language‐Action (VLA) models that give our robots natural‐language reasoning and autonomy, deployable across sectors from hospitality and healthcare to defence and logistics. With prototypes running and a clear path to 600 units per year, the engineers joining now will shape both the hardware and the intelligence behind Ardia for years to come. ROLE OVERVIEW Own deployment and control of robots on the platform in the real world — controllers for mobile and bipedal platforms, the full policy‐to‐robot deployment pipeline and field robustness across sectors from hospitality to defence. WHAT YOU'LL DO Develop and tune whole‐body controllers and locomotion for bipedal humanoid and mobile robot platforms Own the policy‐to‐robot deployment pipeline: from trained VLA policy to reliable, safe on‐robot behaviour in the field Lead structured field testing, robustness analysis and failure‐mode characterisation across deployment verticals Drive sim‐to‐real for locomotion and navigation; define the measurement methodology and track closure Build the tooling and processes that make robot deployment repeatable and safe across the growing fleet WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR 5+ years robotics with a controls or deployment focus; real‐world bipedal, legged or mobile robot experience — not simulation‐only Expert ROS 2 and real‐time control; able to debug determinism and latency issues from observable symptoms Genuine field deployment experience: robots operated in uncontrolled, real‐world environments Strong dynamics and control theory foundations; familiarity with MPC or trajectory optimisation Ability to own a system end to end — from controller design through field validation Nice to have RL for locomotion experience (Isaac Lab, Legged Gym) Experience with Unitree G1/H1, Spot, ANYmal or comparable platforms WHY JOIN US This is a rare opportunity to help design and build the foundational technology for a robotics platform from the ground up Relocation support and housing assistance for Madeira‐based roles; CINM free‐zone benefits Small, senior, hands‐on team — everyone owns a meaningful slice of the product from day one #J-18808-Ljbffr