Vehicle Controls- Technical Lead

Applied Intuition
Sunnyvale
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 150,000 - 250,000 annuallyFunction: Administration & Executive AssistanceExperience: 6+ yearsSkills: ["Technical leadership","Mentorship","Prioritization","Collaboration","Technical decision-making"]

Own the technical direction of a safety-critical vehicle controls stack, guiding it from 0→1 platform bring-up through production hardening, calibration, and fleet scaling. Lead controller design across low-level actuation through lateral and longitudinal trajectory tracking, characterize real-world vehicle dynamics, and build scalable calibration workflows. Mentor and grow the controls team while evaluating research methods like nonlinear MPC and MPPI, partnering with customer engineers through field deployments.

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Vehicle Controls- Technical Lead

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Job Summary

Own the technical direction of a safety-critical vehicle controls stack, guiding it from 0→1 platform bring-up through production hardening, calibration, and fleet scaling. Lead controller design across low-level actuation through lateral and longitudinal trajectory tracking, characterize real-world vehicle dynamics, and build scalable calibration workflows. Mentor and grow the controls team while evaluating research methods like nonlinear MPC and MPPI, partnering with customer engineers through field deployments.
Location: Sunnyvale
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Set the technical direction for the controls stack across 0→1 platform bring-up and production programs, from prototype to deployed fleet.
  • •Design and implement controllers across the stack, from low-level actuator control to lateral and longitudinal trajectory tracking.
  • •Create safe, redundant control systems for safety-critical, tight-timing environments.
  • •Characterize vehicle dynamics and build calibration and vehicle characterization workflows that scale from prototypes to fleets.
  • •Mentor and grow the controls team; set priorities, unblock engineers, and raise the technical bar through design reviews and hands-on collaboration.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 150,000 - 250,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionLife InsuranceDisability Insurance401kLearning BudgetWellness StipendPaid Leave

Key Requirements

  • •6+ years building production software using modern software practices, including experience leading engineers or owning a technical area.
  • •Hands-on experience taking controls solutions from first prototype through deployment on real, production-grade vehicles.
  • •Fluency in differential equations, numerical optimization, numerical analysis, and physics.
  • •Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and drive technical decisions across multiple concurrent workstreams.
  • •Passion for challenging controls problems across varied and unstructured vehicle environments.
Experience:6+ yearsAutonomyRoboticsSafety-critical software
Skills:Technical leadershipMentorshipPrioritizationCollaborationTechnical decision-making
Tech Stack:C++Nonlinear MPCMPPIQuadratic programmingNumerical optimizationNumerical analysis

Company Brief

Applied Intuition
Builds software tools for autonomous vehicle development, including simulation, validation, and data infrastructure for automakers and robotics teams. Also supports defense applications with autonomy-focused testing and deployment platforms.
Industry: Developer Tools
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Headquarters: Mountain View, United States
Founded: 2017
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