Locomotion Control Engineer

The Company:

Faraday Future (FF) is a California-based embodied artificial intelligence ecosystem company, leveraging the latest technologies and world’s best talent to realize exciting new possibilities in mobility and robotics. We’re producing user-centric, technology-first vehicles and robots to establish new paradigms in human-AI interaction. We’re not just seeking to change how our cars and robots work – we’re seeking to change the way we drive and interact with machines. At FF, we’re creating something new, something connected, and something with a true global impact.

Your Role:

We are seeking a Senior Locomotion Control Engineer to lead the design, implementation, and real-world deployment of robot motion capabilities. This role is responsible for building robust locomotion systems that work reliably across simulation and hardware, and for driving the technical direction of gait, balance, terrain adaptation, and control integration.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and optimize robot locomotion systems, including gait generation, balance control, and terrain adaptation.
• Develop and improve locomotion controllers using MPC, whole-body control, reinforcement learning, or hybrid control approaches.
• Own the full loop from simulation to hardware deployment, including controller tuning, regression validation, and failure analysis.
• Improve robot stability, robustness, safety, and energy efficiency in real-world operating conditions.
• Work closely with runtime, simulation, behavior, and hardware teams to define clean interfaces and reliable integration paths.
• Support real-robot bring-up, debugging, performance analysis, and root-cause investigation for motion failures.
• Contribute to control architecture decisions, testing methodology, and technical roadmap planning for motion control capabilities.

Basic Qualifications:

• Master’s degree or above in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience developing robotics locomotion, motion control, or autonomous robotic systems.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience supporting quadruped, humanoid, or legged robot development and deployment.
• Strong foundation in robotics, including dynamics, kinematics, estimation, and control theory.
• Hands-on experience with at least one locomotion approach such as MPC, whole-body control, reinforcement learning locomotion, or heuristic gait control.
• Strong C++ skills for production robotics software development.