# Controls Engineer - New Grad at Relling

- Company: Relling
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Type: Full-time · Entry
- Posted: 2026-10-02
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/relling/44ce58c4-d5a1-436e-8687-870c8f9d778a
- Page: https://newgrad.ai/jobs/controls-engineer-new-grad-5deb3568

## Summary by newgrad.ai

What you'll do:

- Develop and verify control sequences for robotic workcells.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to troubleshoot hardware and software issues.
- Create technical documentation for system debugging and commissioning.

What they're looking for:

- Practical experience in robotics, electrical, or controls projects.
- Ability to interpret wiring diagrams and implement safe failure testing.
- Familiarity with state machines, industrial networking, or motor control systems.

## Posting

### ABOUT RELLING SYSTEMS

Relling Systems (YC S25) builds ready-to-deploy AI robot workcells for US manufacturers. We design and test in San Francisco and put systems to work on factory floors. This role is in person in Potrero Hill, San Francisco.

### WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Build and test control sequences for robot workcells, including sensors, actuators, interlocks and recovery.
- Bring up hardware with software and mechanical engineers; diagnose failures with measurements and logs.
- Document states, interfaces and commissioning checks so a cell can be debugged on a factory floor.

### WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

- Hands-on controls, electrical or robotics project experience. Coursework plus a strong build is welcome.
- Can explain a state machine, read a wiring diagram and test a failure safely.
- PLC, industrial networking, motor-control or Formula Electric subsystem experience is useful, not mandatory.

### HOW TO APPLY

Apply with your resume and a short description of something you built. Project links are optional. Tell us what you owned, what failed and how you tested the fix. Coursework, student teams and personal projects count.

From Relling's public posting, laid out for reading by newgrad.ai with the wording unchanged. Check the original before you apply.

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