Software Engineer - Controls

Responsibilities

• Design and implement controls modules for autonomous navigation on off-road vehicles
• Characterize vehicle dynamics to create tailored controls solutions and reduce simulation-to-real-world gaps
• Evaluate and utilize academic research to create optimal-control-based solutions using techniques like nonlinear MPC and MPPI control
• Collaborate with customers’ engineers and manage customer relationships

Requirements

• 3+ 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
• Passion for tackling challenging control problems in off-road environments

Preferred Qualifications

• MSc or PhD in mechanical engineering or computer science with controls research experience
• Experience writing safety-critical C++ code (MISRA, AUTOSAR)
• Experience with quadratic programming solvers and nonlinear optimization tools (OSQP, SCS, CasADi)
• Experience applying machine learning to vehicle dynamics modeling
• Experience writing high-performance C++ code
• Experience working with large industrial vehicles in off-road environments

About the Company

Applied Intuition is powering the future of physical AI, creating the digital infrastructure needed to bring intelligence to every moving machine on the planet across automotive, defense, trucking, construction, mining, and agriculture industries.