Senior Software Engineer, Autonomy Controls

Responsibilities

• Develop motion control algorithms for a safety-critical autonomous driving system.
• Analyze control-system performance in offline simulations and on-road execution environments.
• Verify system robustness against disturbances, failure modes, and environmental conditions.
• Design, implement, integrate, and verify motion-control systems across vehicle platforms.

Requirements

• Experience in control-system design with a solid foundation in control theory.
• Experience building production-quality C++ code.
• At least 5 years of experience working on control systems for robots or vehicles in automotive, aerospace, robotics, or related fields.
• Familiarity with fail-safe or fail-operational control systems is desirable.
• Experience verifying safety-critical or autonomous systems is desirable.
• Experience analyzing or simulating nonlinear vehicle dynamics is desirable.
• Knowledge of state-estimation and signal-processing techniques is desirable.
• A master’s degree or PhD in a related field is desirable.

Benefits

• Annual bonus, equity compensation, and benefits are available.
• Roles are based in Mountain View, California, or Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with employees expected to work from the office at least 3 days per week and some roles requiring up to 5 days per week.