Software Engineer Low Speed Motion Planning & Control Planning
Applied Intuition6 months ago
Stuttgart, GermanyMid Level
H1B Sponsor
Responsibilities
- Design and implement motion-planning and controls modules deployable across vehicle platforms.
- Enable highly accurate autonomous navigation in tight scenarios.
- Characterize customer vehicle dynamics to create tailored controls solutions and reduce the simulation-to-reality gap.
- Evaluate academic research and develop optimal-control-based solutions using nonlinear MPC and MPPI control.
- Contribute infrastructure-side and vehicle-side enablement work for the autonomous-vehicle stack.
- Interact with users and customers to collect feedback and take ownership of technical and product decisions.
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 challenging motion-planning or motion-control problems and practical solutions to cutting-edge challenges.
- Preferred: MSc or PhD in mechanical engineering or computer science with coursework or research experience in motion planning or controls.
- 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 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 and €19 dinner budgets, plus free breakfast, snacks, and drinks in the office.
- €965 annual learning and development budget and €580 annual fitness budget.
- Subsidized Wellpass membership with access to gyms, studios, and wellness facilities across Germany.
- €25 monthly contribution toward the Deutschlandticket for regional public transport.
- Generous parental leave in addition to statutory parental leave.
- Primarily in-office work five days per week, with occasional remote-work flexibility.