Software Engineer - Low Speed Motion Planning & Control
AI summary of the role
Design and implement motion planning and controls modules for autonomous vehicle stacks, focusing on low-speed navigation in tight scenarios.
What you’ll do
- Design and implement motion planning and controls modules for various vehicle platforms enabling accurate autonomous navigation in tight scenarios.
- Characterize customer vehicle dynamics to create tailored controls solutions and reduce simulation-to-real-world gap.
- Evaluate and utilize academic research to create optimal-control-based solutions using nonlinear MPC and MPPI control.
- Build out capabilities of an autonomous vehicle stack including infrastructure and vehicle-side enablement.
What you’ll bring
- 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.
Technologies
C++ · motion planning · motion control · nonlinear MPC · MPPI control · numerical optimization · control theory · quadratic programming · MISRA · AUTOSAR
About Applied Intuition
Builds the toolchain, vehicle OS and autonomy stacks that automakers, defense and off-road OEMs use to ship AI-driven vehicles.
Series F
Source and classification
Production engineering · Evidence for this classification:
our expectation is that employees primarily work from their Applied Intuition office 5 days a week. However, we also recognize the importance of flexibility and trust our employees to manage their schedules responsibly. This may include occasional remote work, starting the day with morning meetings from home before heading to the office, or leaving earlier when needed to accommodate family commitments. About the role We are looking for bright engineers interested in designing elegant solutions to difficult problems in the autonomy space. Your contributions will focus on building out capabilities of an autonomous vehicle stack, including necessary enablement work on the infrastructure- and vehicle-side. At Applied Intuition, we encourage engineers to take ownership over technical and product decisions, interact closely with users & customers to collect feedback, and contribute to a
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About Applied Intuition Applied Intuition, Inc. is powering the future of physical AI. Founded in 2017 and now valued at $15 billion, the Silicon Valley company is creating the digital infrastructure needed to bring intelligence to every moving machine on the planet. Applied Intuition services the automotive, defense, trucking, construction, mining and agriculture industries in three core areas: tools and infrastructure, operating systems, and autonomy. Eighteen of the top 20 global automakers, as well as the United States military and its allies, trust the company’s solutions to deliver physical intelligence. Applied Intuition is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with offices in Washington, D.C.; San Diego; Ft. Walton Beach, Florida; Ann Arbor, Michigan; London; Stuttgart; Munich; Stockholm; Bangalore; Seoul; and Tokyo. Learn more at applied.co. We are an in-office company, and our expectation is that employees primarily work from their Applied Intuition office 5 days a week. However, we also recognize the importance of flexibility and trust our employees to manage their schedules responsibly. This may include occasional remote work, starting the day with morning meetings from home before heading to the office, or leaving earlier when needed to accommodate family commitments. About the role We are looking for bright engineers interested in designing elegant solutions [... source excerpt omitted ...] nt work on the infrastructure- and vehicle-side. At Applied Intuition, we encourage engineers to take ownership over technical and product decisions, interact closely with users & customers to collect feedback, and contribute to a thoughtful, dynamic team culture. In addition to your engineering contributions, by working in our dynamic and customer-focused team culture, you will contribute to and learn from best practices in the nascent autonomy industry. We move fast and we focus on excellence, for our products and for our business. If you are hands-on and looking for a place to have a multiplying effect on making autonomous systems a reality, Applied is the place for you! At [... source excerpt omitted ...] d 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. We're looking for someone who has: Passion about tackling challenging motion planning or motion control problems 3+ years of experience building production software using modern software practices. Hands-on experience testing controls solutions
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