Software Engineer - Low Speed Motion Planning & Control

Applied Industrial Technologies
Sunnyvale
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 125,000 - 232,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 3+ yearsSkills: ["High-performance C++","Control theory","Numerical optimization","Numerical analysis","Physics"]

Design and implement motion planning and control modules for autonomous vehicle platforms, optimizing real-time navigation and vehicle dynamics. Collaborate with users to gather feedback, apply academic research to practical control solutions (e.g., nonlinear MPC/MPPI), and contribute to a fast-paced, engineering-driven team building production-grade software.

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Applied Industrial Technologies
Applied Industrial Technologies
7 months ago

Software Engineer - Low Speed Motion Planning & Control

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Job Summary

Design and implement motion planning and control modules for autonomous vehicle platforms, optimizing real-time navigation and vehicle dynamics. Collaborate with users to gather feedback, apply academic research to practical control solutions (e.g., nonlinear MPC/MPPI), and contribute to a fast-paced, engineering-driven team building production-grade software.
Location: Sunnyvale
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design and implement motion planning and 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.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 125,000 - 232,000 annually
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVision401kLearning BudgetWellness StipendPaid Leave

Key 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 control theory, numerical optimization, numerical analysis, and physics.
  • •Experience writing high-performance C++ code.
  • •Passion about tackling challenging motion planning or motion control problems
Experience:3+ yearsAutonomySelf-drivingRoboticsVehicle dynamics
Skills:High-performance C++Control theoryNumerical optimizationNumerical analysisPhysics
Tech Stack:C++MPCMPPIMISRAAUTOSARQuadratic programmingNonlinear optimizationVehicle dynamics

Company Brief

Applied Industrial Technologies
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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