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Senior Robotics and Controls Engineer

Horizon Surgical Systems

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Sep 23, 2025
Los Angeles, CA, US
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Horizon Surgical Systems Inc. is revolutionizing the world of surgical ophthalmology by developing a novel, AI driven, and imaging-guided surgical robotic system to expand access to care, provide superior capabilities to the human surgeon, and enhance patient outcomes.

Requirements

  • Strong proficiency in modern C++ (at least C++11) is a must.
  • Experience developing robotics software on physical hardware.
  • Deep understanding of rigid body dynamics and kinematic chains.
  • Experience with collision-aware trajectory generation algorithms or constrained nonlinear optimization controllers.
  • Demonstrated history of documenting code and authoring unit tests.
  • Knowledge of ROS2 framework.
  • Understanding of linear algebra and related techniques for solving both linear and nonlinear problems.

Responsibilities

  • creating, implementing, and verifying mission-critical control algorithms
  • considering the surgical environment and its obstacles when developing control algorithms
  • ensuring that the system executes as accurately as possible
  • supporting features critical to the success of this platform like collision avoidance and path planning
  • helping to improve system accuracy

Other

  • Master’s or Ph.D. degree in Robotics, Mechanical/Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
  • 5+ years of robotic algorithm development and deployment on physical hardware.
  • 5+ years of modern C++ software development.
  • 3+ years of rigid body dynamics and kinematics.
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational abilities.