Job Title: Control Systems Engineer

Location: Hoxton, London

Start Date: ASAP

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Equity (4 year vest, 1 year cliff)

KAIKAKU Culture

We at KAIKAKU are transforming the restaurant industry, through a fully vertically integrated approach covering hardware, software and AI. We are firm believers in:

• Getting into the trenches with the tech you make. You are the user tester, customer success team, support staff, maintenance and technician.
• The power of generalists. We are not yet interested in specialisations. You must have broad interests in your area of engineering.
• Motivation through execution. You should thrive when you progress, not when you get to work on ‘fun stuff’.
• Rapid iteration. Not just buzzwords, but actually deploying and testing hardware changes on an hourly rate, through 3DP.
• No future-proofing. You will be expected to ship products that are missing features and do not work, and then fix them in production. If you are not ashamed of your work, you have shipped too late.
• Creating products for the customer only . We are not interested in making ‘cool’ or ‘gimmicky’ robots. We want to make the most effective, impressive, focused and useful tech in this space.

Please only apply if all of the above sounds right to you. Your role will be in person, based in Hoxton, London.

Job Responsibilities

• Design, improve and develop control systems and architectures for Fusion, our bowl assembly robot, as well as other mechatronics systems
• Working with mechanical design and software engineers to implement control schemes
• Take ownership of control-related performance characteristics of all hardware, from conveyor stopping accuracy, to mass dispensing capabilities to sensor implementation
• Work with existing and upcoming clients to ensure menu/ingredient compatibility and performance within Fusion
• Responsible for validating progression and performance in the real world, through test-rigs, deployed robots etc

Required Skills

• Experience with system identification of real world dynamical systems
• Extensive experience deploying control systems / architectures to real world hardware - beyond simulation
• Deep knowledge and understanding of controllers, beyond PID
• Experience with working with raw sensor data, and knowledge of signal processing
• Some experience with simulation
• Broad understanding and appreciation for complex mechatronics systems as a whole

Preferred Skills

• Worked in or surrounding robotics applications
• Complementary electronics knowledge, extending to PCB design

What We Offer

• An opportunity to work on technology and see it deployed, sometimes just hours later
• Joining a high growth, VC backed startup on a scaling and deployment inflection point
• Significant autonomy and responsibility in your work
• A highly varied set of tasks, and learning opportunities
• Competitive salary + equity
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Free lunches at Common Room (and other future restaurant acquisitions)
• Regular socials, pub visits and off-sites