Vehicle Controls- Technical Lead

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Set the technical direction for the controls stack across both 0→1 platform bring-up and production programs, and see designs through from prototype to deployed fleet
• Design and implement controllers at every level of the stack, from low-level actuator control to lateral and longitudinal trajectory tracking
• Design safe, redundant control systems that live within a safety-critical environment.
• Characterize the dynamics of customer vehicles across many embodiments — haul trucks, excavators, wheel loaders, dozers, and more — to create tailored controls solutions and close the gap between simulation and…
• Build calibration and vehicle characterization workflows that scale controls performance from a single prototype to fleets of vehicles without per-vehicle hand-tuning
• Lead, mentor, and grow the existing controls team; set priorities, unblock engineers, and raise the technical bar through design reviews and hands-on collaboration
• Evaluate and apply academic research to create optimal-control-based solutions using techniques like nonlinear MPC and MPPI control
• Collaborate with customers' engineers in construction, mining, and agriculture, and manage those relationships through field deployments

Job requirements

• Passion for tackling challenging control problems involving a wide array of vehicles in varied and unstructured environments
• 6+ years of experience 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
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers, prioritize a team's roadmap, and drive technical decisions across multiple concurrent workstreams
• Fluency in differential equations, numerical optimization, numerical analysis, and physics
• Enthusiasm for coming up with practical solutions to cutting-edge challenges in a fast-paced environment, and for building towards an end-to-end strategy