Controls & Firmware Engineer (Robotics)

Edgerun's mission is to remove civilization-level physical constraints limiting the human body. We believe a future where humans keep pushing into the unknown is far better than one where we send machines in our place. That starts on the battlefield, doubling what a soldier can carry and how far they can carry it. Read more about our mission at edgerun.com/mission

We're looking for a Controls & Firmware Engineer to make our exoskeleton walk.

You'll own everything that runs on the device: the low-level firmware, the controls algorithm that decides how much torque to give and when, and the data collection that trains it. Today this work is done by our engineers abroad. It moves to Kyiv and you'll take it over, with hands-on support from them in the first weeks. From then on, you're the lead on firmware and controls, sitting next to the units and the soldiers who use them.

You'll report to our Engineering Lead and work daily with the software engineer and the field team. This is a lead role: you decide, ship and take responsibility for what is on the device. You'll thrive in a fast-paced environment and make decisions on your own.

What You'll Do

• Make the exoskeleton feel right in every situation a soldier is in: slow walking while shooting, stairs, slopes, running, lunging, prone, squatting with a load, starting and stopping
• Improve our machine-learning controls, retrain them with new data, and ship a release every week with notes on what changed and how to test it
• Write and maintain the embedded firmware: motor control over CAN, IMU and sensor reading, fault handling, battery and thermal limits, logging, Bluetooth to the app, over-the-air and USB updates
• Put reliability first: a unit in the field must never do something unexpected to the person wearing it
• Run data collection in Kyiv (treadmill, stairs and ramps, cameras for ground-truth labeling, wearable IMUs, new subjects every week) and make the collect, label, train, release loop fast
• Take over our custom motor driver firmware, test it, make it reliable and own it going forward
• Work with the software engineer on what the device records and how the data gets off it, so the app and fleet dashboard can show every test and every unit
• Support the field: flash and update units, read logs from tests, explain what the firmware is doing to the field team, and turn what soldiers say into the next release
• Join the firmware sync with engineering twice a week
• Take ownership and make fast, practical decisions without waiting for detailed direction
  
  

What You Bring

• Has shipped firmware on a robot, drone, exoskeleton, prosthetic or similar: a real device with motors, sensors and a battery, used by people
• Strong in embedded C on a microcontroller, motor control, CAN, IMUs and real-time loops, and comfortable with a scope and a soldering iron
• Strong in controls, and comfortable with machine learning in a control loop
• Can run data collection and training on your own, end to end, in Python
• Senior: decides, ships and takes responsibility for what is on the device
• Willing to grind: weekly releases, fixes in hours when a test is blocked, and going to the field when needed
• Working English for daily work with international engineers
• Based in or willing to relocate to Kyiv, full-time on-site. Any nationality
  
  

Nice to have

• Gait, biomechanics or legged robotics experience (a big plus)
  
  

Good to know

Hardware reaches real operators within days, and we release every week. We're a small team with one owner per category. Occasional extended hours, weekends and field visits may be needed. Start as soon as possible, with a one-month paid trial. Relocation to Kyiv is covered.

Draft exemption if necessary.

Skills: embedded,data collection,data,c,firmware,can bus