Applied Intuition
Software Engineer - Low Speed Motion Planning & Control
$125K–$232K
Sunnyvale · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 2, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years building production software; hands-on experience testing controls solutions on real, production-grade vehicles.
- Education
- Bachelor’s, MSc, or PhD in mechanical engineering or computer science, with coursework or research experience in motion planning or controls.
About the job
Designs and implements motion-planning and control capabilities for autonomous vehicles, adapting them to vehicle dynamics and tight navigation scenarios.
What you'll do
- Develop motion-planning and control modules for deployment across vehicle platforms.
- Characterize customer vehicle dynamics and develop tailored controls to reduce simulation-to-reality gaps.
- Evaluate research and build optimal-control solutions, including nonlinear MPC and MPPI.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s, MSc, or PhD in mechanical engineering or computer science, with coursework or research in motion planning or controls.
- 3+ years building production software using modern software practices.
- Hands-on experience testing control solutions on production-grade vehicles.
- Fluency in control theory, numerical optimization, numerical analysis, and physics; experience writing high-performance C++.
Nice to have
- Experience with safety-critical C++ guidelines such as MISRA and AUTOSAR, or quadratic programming solvers and nonlinear optimization tools.
- Experience applying machine learning to vehicle dynamics modeling, or working with commercial/industrial vehicles and passenger cars.
Pay
$125,000 - $232,000 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
C++, nonlinear MPC, MPPI, MISRA, AUTOSAR
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