Vehicle Controls- Technical Lead
Applied Intuition2 months ago
Base Salary
$150k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Set the technical direction for the controls stack across prototype platform bring-up and production programs.
- Design and implement controllers spanning low-level actuator control and lateral and longitudinal trajectory tracking.
- Design safe, redundant control systems for safety-critical environments.
- Characterize customer vehicle dynamics and close the gap between simulation and real-world behavior.
- Build calibration and vehicle-characterization workflows that scale across vehicle fleets without per-vehicle hand-tuning.
- Lead, mentor, and grow the controls team while setting priorities, unblocking engineers, and raising technical standards.
- Evaluate academic research and apply nonlinear MPC and MPPI techniques to develop optimal-control solutions.
- Collaborate with customer engineers and manage relationships through field deployments.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience building production software using modern software practices, including experience leading engineers or owning a technical area.
- Hands-on experience taking controls solutions from prototype through deployment on production-grade vehicles.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers, prioritize a team roadmap, and drive technical decisions across concurrent workstreams.
- Fluency in differential equations, numerical optimization, numerical analysis, and physics.
- Passion for challenging control problems involving varied vehicles and unstructured environments.
- MSc or PhD in mechanical engineering, robotics, or computer science with controls coursework or research experience is preferred.
- Experience writing safety-critical, high-performance software using modern C++ is preferred.
- Experience with quadratic programming and nonlinear optimization for robust, performant controllers is preferred.
- Experience with heavy equipment or off-road platforms in construction, mining, or agriculture is preferred.
- Experience building calibration pipelines or system-identification tooling used across a fleet is preferred.
Benefits
- Full-time employees primarily work from the Applied Intuition office 5 days per week, with occasional remote-work flexibility; this expectation does not apply to contractors.
- 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.
- Eligible roles may include equity in the form of options and/or restricted stock units.
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.