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Software Engineer – Controls
| Company | Applied Intuition |
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| Location | Mountain View, CA, USA |
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| Salary | $170000 – $250000 |
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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
- 4+ 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 onto 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 safety-critical, high-performance software using modern C++.
- Experience in quadratic programming and nonlinear optimization to create robust and performant controllers.
- Experience applying machine learning techniques to vehicle dynamics modeling.
