7 months ago
Mountain View, CA, USASenior / Staff+
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$180k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, integrate, and support real-time mission-critical software for the autonomy stack.
- Develop control and optimization methods in simulation and through in-vehicle testing with research and control engineers.
- Create maintainable, testable, and robust software designs.
- Support rapid prototyping through software-in-the-loop and hardware-in-the-loop workflows.
- Perform tuning, calibration, in-vehicle testing, visualization, and post-processing of test data.
- Collaborate with planning, localization, drive-by-wire, and testing teams on secure and scalable software integration.
Requirements
- MSc or PhD in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or Computer Science with a background in controls and optimization.
- At least 5 years of production-level experience with C++/C and Matlab/Simulink.
- At least 2 years of experience in the autonomous vehicle or ADAS industries.
- Deep understanding of optimal control, model predictive control, and Kalman filtering.
- Experience applying optimization techniques and tools or solvers to create robust, performant controllers.
- Strong mathematics, linear algebra, vehicle dynamics modeling, and controls background.
- Experience with source control, containerization, Bash scripting, ROS2, CAN, Python, and Linux.
- Familiarity with dSPACE, vehicle dynamic modeling toolchains, SiL/HiL setups, TruckSim, IPG TruckMaker, and CI/CD or pipeline management is a bonus.
Benefits
- Onsite five days per week at the Mountain View, California office.
About Gatik AI
Gatik AI builds and operates autonomous middle‑mile trucking networks for retailers and consumer brands, delivered as a transportation‑as‑a‑service offering. Its Level 4, Class 3–7 trucks move B2B freight on short‑haul, repeatable routes, with commercial deployments in Texas, Arkansas, and Ontario, including a fully driverless service launched with Walmart in 2021. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Santa Clara, it integrates software and hardware to run driverless deliveries between warehouses and stores.