Software Engineer Low Speed Motion Planning & Control Planning
Applied Intuition8 months ago
Stuttgart, GermanyMid Level
Responsibilities
- Design and implement motion-planning and controls modules for deployment across vehicle platforms
- Enable highly accurate autonomous navigation in tight scenarios
- Characterize customer-vehicle dynamics and create tailored controls solutions
- Reduce differences between simulated and real-world vehicle dynamics
- Evaluate academic research and develop optimal-control solutions using nonlinear MPC and MPPI control
- Contribute to infrastructure-side and vehicle-side enablement for the autonomous-vehicle stack
- Own technical and product decisions and interact with users and customers to collect feedback
Requirements
- At least 3 years of experience building production software using modern software practices
- Hands-on experience testing controls solutions on real, production-grade vehicles
- Fluency in control theory, numerical optimization, numerical analysis, and physics
- Experience writing high-performance C++ code
- Passion for motion-planning or motion-control problems and practical problem-solving in a fast-paced environment
- Preferred: MSc or PhD in mechanical engineering or computer science with motion-planning or controls coursework or research
- Preferred: Experience writing safety-critical C++ compliant with guidelines such as MISRA and AUTOSAR
- Preferred: Experience using quadratic-programming solvers or nonlinear optimization tools
- Preferred: Experience applying machine-learning techniques to vehicle-dynamics modeling
- Preferred: Experience with large industrial or commercial vehicles and passenger cars
Benefits
- 30 days of paid vacation per year
- €19 lunch budget and €19 dinner budget, plus free breakfast, snacks, and drinks in the office
- €965 annual learning and development budget
- €580 annual fitness budget
- Subsidized Wellpass membership with access to gyms, studios, and wellness facilities across Germany
- €25 monthly contribution to the Deutschlandticket
- Generous parental leave beyond statutory requirements
- Primarily in-office work five days per week, with occasional remote-work flexibility
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.