Software Engineer - Controls
Applied Intuition1 day ago
Sunnyvale, CA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$150k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and implement controls modules for autonomous navigation on vehicles.
- Characterize customer vehicle dynamics and develop tailored controls solutions to reduce simulation-to-reality gaps.
- Evaluate academic research and develop optimal-control solutions using nonlinear MPC and MPPI techniques.
- Diagnose system software and functional driving issues in simulation and on target platforms through root-cause analysis.
- Perform in-vehicle testing, run autonomous driving missions, collect data, and convert field failures into fixes.
- Verify and validate autonomy functions through test-case design, fault injection, 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 customer engineers and manage customer relationships.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in mechanical engineering, computer science, or a related field, with coursework or research experience in controls.
- At least 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.
- Passion for solving challenging control problems across varied vehicles and environments.
- Ability to develop practical solutions and contribute to an end-to-end strategy in a fast-paced environment.
- Preferred experience writing safety-critical, high-performance software in modern C++.
- Preferred experience with quadratic programming and nonlinear optimization for robust, performant controllers.
- Preferred experience applying machine learning techniques to vehicle-dynamics modeling.
Benefits
- Base salary, equity, and comprehensive benefits are offered for eligible roles; compensation figures are not specified.
- Benefits may include health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, 401(k) retirement benefits with employer match, learning and wellness stipends, and paid time off.
- Full-time employees are expected to work primarily from an Applied Intuition office five days per week, with occasional remote-work flexibility; this expectation does not apply to contractors.
- Benefits may vary by employment jurisdiction and are subject to change.
Tech Stack
Categories
Robotics
About Applied Intuition
Applied Intuition builds software tools, infrastructure, and operating systems for developing, testing, and deploying autonomous and driver-assistance systems across automotive, trucking, defense, construction, mining, and agriculture. It sells enterprise software and services including simulation, sensor data management, HD mapping, and a vehicle OS to OEMs and government customers. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, it counts 18 of the top 20 global automakers and the U.S. military among its users.