Software Engineer - Controls
Applied Intuition3 months ago
Tokyo, JapanMid Level
Responsibilities
- Design and implement controls modules for autonomous navigation on off-road vehicles.
- Characterize customer vehicle dynamics to create tailored controls solutions and reduce the gap between simulation and real-world behavior.
- Evaluate academic research and develop optimal-control solutions using nonlinear MPC and MPPI control.
- Test and optimize high-performance controls modules under critical timing, thermal, and power constraints.
- Collaborate with customer engineers and manage customer relationships.
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 differential equations, numerical optimization, numerical analysis, and physics.
- Passion for solving difficult controls problems across diverse vehicles and challenging off-road environments.
- Preferred: MSc or PhD in mechanical engineering or computer science with controls coursework or research experience.
- Preferred: Experience writing safety-critical C++ compliant with guidelines such as MISRA and AUTOSAR.
- Preferred: Experience with quadratic programming solvers and nonlinear optimization tools including OSQP, SCS, and CasADi.
- Preferred: Experience applying machine learning to vehicle dynamics modeling.
- Preferred: Experience writing high-performance C++ code.
- Preferred: Experience working with large industrial vehicles in off-road environments.
Benefits
- Primarily in-office work 5 days per week, with occasional remote-work flexibility and schedule flexibility for personal commitments.
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.