Software Engineer - Controls
Applied Intuition is a physical-AI company that provides software platforms for developing, validating, deploying, and operating intelligent vehicles and machines.
About Applied Intuition
Founded in 2017, Applied Intuition builds physical-AI tooling and infrastructure, a Vehicle OS, and a Self-Driving System for automotive, defense, trucking, construction, mining, agriculture, and robotics applications.
Skills
Candidate Availability
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About the Role
You will design and implement high-performance controls modules for autonomous vehicles and mobile robots. You will characterize customer vehicle dynamics, apply optimal-control techniques like nonlinear MPC and MPPI, diagnose issues on road and in simulation, run in-vehicle tests, verify and validate autonomy functions, contribute to safety requirements, and work with customers' engineers.
Requirements
- Bachelors or Masters in mechanical engineering, computer science or related field with controls coursework or research
- 2+ years of experience building production software
- 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 for autonomous navigation
- Characterize customer vehicle dynamics to create tailored controls solutions
- Apply academic research to build optimal-control solutions such as nonlinear MPC and MPPI
- Diagnose system software and functional driving issues to root cause
- Perform in-vehicle testing and close the loop from field failures to fixes
- Verify and validate autonomy functions in SIL/HIL and in-vehicle environments
- Contribute to functional and safety requirements and support DFMEA-style failure analysis
- Collaborate with customers' engineers and manage customer relationships
Benefits
- Equity
- Health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance
- 401k with employer match
- Learning and wellness stipends
- Paid time off