Autonomous Vehicle Motion Planning & Control Engineer

Speedrun Talent Network; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 232,000; Full time

Job summary

Applied Intuition, Inc. is hiring engineers to design and implement motion planning and controls modules for an autonomous vehicle stack, spanning infrastructure and vehicle sides. You will own technical decisions and interact with users to collect feedback.

We value hands-on testing on real vehicles, collaboration, and applying academic research like MPC/MPPI. Base salary range for US-based roles is $125,000-$232,000 USD annually.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s/MSc/PhD in mechanical engineering or computer science with coursework or research in motion planning or controls.
• 3+ years of experience building production software using modern software practices.
• Hands-on experience testing controls solutions on real, production-grade vehicles.
• Fluency in control theory, numerical optimization, numerical analysis, and physics.
• Experience writing high-performance C++ code.
• Passion about tackling challenging motion planning or motion control problems.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement motion planning and controls modules that can be deployed on various vehicle platforms, enabling them for highly accurate autonomous navigation in tight scenarios.
• 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.

Skills

Motion planning

Controls

C++

Numerical optimization

Physics

Collaboration

Practical problem solving

Education

Bachelor/Master/PhD in mechanical engineering or computer science

Tools

MISRA

AUTOSAR

Job description

Applied Intuition, Inc. is hiring engineers to design and implement motion planning and controls modules for an autonomous vehicle stack, spanning infrastructure and vehicle sides. You will own technical decisions and interact with users to collect feedback.

We value hands-on testing on real vehicles, collaboration, and applying academic research like MPC/MPPI. Base salary range for US-based roles is $125,000-$232,000 USD annually.