Autonomy Controls Engineer for High-Performance Vehicles

Telemetry Today LLC; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Applied Intuition, Inc. in Silicon Valley seeks a software engineer with expertise in controls for autonomous vehicles or mobile robots. You design controls modules for autonomous navigation and validate them on real vehicles and in simulation.

You will contribute to best practices, apply MPC/optimization techniques, and work in a fast-paced, customer-focused team to advance safety-critical software for autonomous systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor or Master in mechanical engineering, computer science or related field
• 2+ 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
• Enthusiasm for practical solutions to cutting-edge challenges in a fast-paced environment

Responsibilities

• Design and implement controls modules that can be deployed onto vehicles for autonomous navigation
• Characterize the dynamics of customers’ vehicles to create tailored controls solutions and reduce the gap between simulation and real-world dynamics
• Evaluate and utilize academic research to create optimal-control-based solutions using nonlinear MPC and MPPI control
• Diagnose system software and functional driving issues on target platforms, both on-road and in simulation, and drive them to the root cause
• Perform in-vehicle testing: run autonomous drive missions, collect data, and close the loop from field failures to fixes
• Verify and validate autonomy functions from test-case design through fault injection in SIL/HIL and in-vehicle environments
• Contribute to functional and safety requirements and support DFMEA-style failure analysis for safety-critical vehicle functions
• Collaborate with customers’ engineers and manage customer relationships

Skills

Controls

Autonomous vehicles

C++

Mathematical optimization

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in mechanical engineering or computer science

Tools

SIL/HIL

Job description

Applied Intuition, Inc. in Silicon Valley seeks a software engineer with expertise in controls for autonomous vehicles or mobile robots. You design controls modules for autonomous navigation and validate them on real vehicles and in simulation.

You will contribute to best practices, apply MPC/optimization techniques, and work in a fast-paced, customer-focused team to advance safety-critical software for autonomous systems.