Software Engineer - Controls

About the role

We are looking for a software engineer with expertise in control of autonomous vehicles or mobile robots. Among your responsibilities will be the development of controls modules that must be high performance due to critical timing constraints.

In addition to your engineering contributions, by working in our dynamic and customer-focused team culture, you will contribute to and learn from best practices in the nascent autonomy industry. We move fast and we focus on excellence, for our products and for our business. If you are hands-on and looking for a place to have a multiplying effect on making autonomous systems a reality, Applied Intuition is the place for you!

At Applied Intuition, you will:

• Design and implement controls modules that can be deployed onto vehicles for autonomous navigation

• Characterize the dynamics of our customers’ vehicles to create tailored controls solutions and to reduce the gap between simulation and real-world dynamics

• Evaluate and utilize academic research to create optimal-control-based solutions using techniques like nonlinear MPC and MPPI control

• Diagnose system software and functional driving issues on target platforms, both on-road and in simulation, and drive them to the root cause.

• Perform in-vehicle testing: run autonomous drive missions, collect data, and close the loop from field failures to fixes.

• Verify and validate autonomy functions from test-case design through fault injection in SIL/HIL and in-vehicle environments.

• Contribute to functional and safety requirements and support DFMEA-style failure analysis for safety-critical vehicle functions.

• Collaborate with customers’ engineers and manage customer relationships

We're looking for someone who has:

• Passion about tackling challenging control problems involving a wide array of vehicles in various environments

• Bachelors or Masters in mechanical engineering, computer science or related field with coursework or research experience in controls

• 2+ years of experience building production software using modern software practices

• Hands-on experience testing controls solutions on real, production-grade vehicles

• Fluency in differential equations, numerical optimization, numerical analysis, and physics

• Enthusiasm for coming up with practical solutions to cutting-edge challenges in a fast-paced environment, and building towards an end-to-end strategy

Nice to have:

• Experience writing safety-critical, high-performance software using modern C++

• Experience in quadratic programming and nonlinear optimization to create robust and performant controllers

• Experience applying machine learning techniques to vehicle dynamics modeling