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Software Engineer – Controls
| Company | Applied Intuition |
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| Location | Mountain View, CA, USA |
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| Salary | $125000 – $222000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Master’s, PhD |
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| Experience Level | Mid Level, Senior |
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Requirements
- 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.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement controls modules that can be deployed on off-road vehicles for autonomous navigation.
- Characterize the dynamics of our customers’ vehicles to create tailored controls solutions and to reduce the gap between simulation and real-world dynamics.
- Evaluate and utilize academic research to create optimal-control-based solutions using techniques like nonlinear MPC and MPPI control.
- Collaborate with customers’ engineers and manage customer relationships.
Preferred Qualifications
- MSc or PhD in mechanical engineering or computer science with coursework or research experience in controls.
- Experience writing software that is compliant with guidelines for safety-critical C++ code, such as MISRA and AUTOSAR.
- Experience using quadratic programming solvers and nonlinear optimization tools such as OSQP, SCS, and CasADi to create robust and performant controllers.
- Experience applying machine learning techniques to vehicle dynamics modeling.
- Experience writing high-performance C++ code.
- Experience working with large industrial vehicles in off-road environments.
