Software Engineer Low Speed Motion Planning and Control Planning
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Applied Intuition is a physical-AI company that provides software platforms for developing, validating, deploying, and operating intelligent vehicles and machines.
Sunnyvale, United States
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.
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About the Role
You will design and implement motion-planning and control modules for autonomous vehicle platforms. You will characterize vehicle dynamics, develop tailored control solutions, and apply research such as nonlinear MPC and MPPI to solve navigation problems.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience building production software using modern software practices
- Hands-on experience testing control solutions on real production-grade vehicles
- Knowledge of control theory numerical optimization numerical analysis and physics
- Experience writing high-performance C++ code
- Experience solving motion planning or motion control problems
Responsibilities
- Design and implement motion planning and control modules for autonomous vehicle platforms
- Characterize customer vehicle dynamics and develop tailored control solutions
- Reduce the gap between simulation and real-world dynamics
- Evaluate and apply academic research to develop optimal-control-based solutions using nonlinear MPC and MPPI
Benefits
- 30 days of paid vacation per year
- €19 lunch budget and €19 dinner budget
- Free breakfast snacks and drinks in the office
- €965 annual learning and development budget
- €580 annual fitness budget
- Subsidized Wellpass membership
- €25 monthly Deutschlandticket contribution
- Additional parental leave beyond statutory parental leave