Proto-Town

Hardware startup campus enabling prototyping

Lead Robotics Engineer - Legged Systems

Power Systems EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeLockhart, TX, USANo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

Experience in electric-vehicle and e-mobility powertrain work, motor drive and inverter design, industrial servo and actuator manufacturing, or legged robotics.
Experience shipping high-power motion hardware designed directly by the candidate.
Ability to work across mechanical design, motor control, and power electronics without handing off at the boundaries.
Fluency with C++ and Python, a real-time control target, CAN or EtherCAT, and a simulator whose capabilities and limitations are understood.

Responsibilities

Own the technical development of a legged quadruped robot that carries a human rider from initial architecture through implementation.
Define the machine architecture and actuation strategy.
Develop prototype hardware.
Develop the locomotion control stack.
Design or deeply integrate motor drives and inverters.
Select the battery pack and battery-management system.
Design thermal management for sustained high-power operation.
Implement field-oriented and torque control, encoder and current sensing, and real-time firmware on embedded targets.
Design high torque-density drivetrains involving motors, gearboxes, and backdrivability tradeoffs.

Lead Robotics Engineer - Legged Systems

The role

We are building a legged quadruped robot that carries a human rider, starting from scratch. There is no platform to modify, no reference design to scale up, and no prior program here to inherit. You would be the technical owner of the machine as it comes into existence: architecture, actuation strategy, prototype hardware, and the locomotion control stack.

What we're looking for

The center of this role is mechatronics: you work across mechanical design, motor control, and power electronics without handing off at the boundaries

High-power electronics: Multi-kilowatt DC bus architecture, motor drive and inverter design or deep integration, battery pack and BMS selection, and the thermal design that keeps all of it alive under sustained load.
Motor control: Field-oriented control, torque control, encoder and current sensing, and real-time firmware on embedded targets.
Actuation: High torque-density drivetrain design: motors, gearboxes, backdrivability, and the tradeoffs between them.
Fluency in the practical stack: C++ and Python, a real-time control target, CAN or EtherCAT, and a simulator you trust and know the limits of.

Backgrounds that tend to fit

We are looking for people with experience in EV and e-mobility powertrain work, motor drive and inverter design, industrial servo and actuator manufacturing, or legged robotics. What matters is that you have shipped high-power motion hardware you designed yourself.

About the Company

Proto-Town

Hardware startup campus enabling prototyping

Proto-Town is a hardware-focused campus in Caldwell County, Texas that helps hardware startups move from prototyping to testing and scaling. Startups access build spaces, testing grounds, on-site machining, shared infrastructure, and housing on a single site, funded by land leases and room-and-board services. It differentiates itself by offering an integrated ecosystem—land, manufacturing, testing, housing, and a network of startups and mature companies—within a rural campus led by founders with aerospace and energy backgrounds. The goal is to lower the costs and time required for hardware development, so teams can prototype, test, and scale faster than traditional labs or incubators.

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