Senior Software Engineer, Control

Plus is a global provider of highly automated driving and fully autonomous driving solutions with headquarters in Silicon Valley, California. Named by Forbes as one of America’s Best Startup Employers and Fast Company as one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies, Plus’s open autonomy technology platform is already powering vehicles in commercial use today. Working with one of the largest companies in the U.S., vehicle manufacturers, and others globally, Plus is helping to make driving safer, more comfortable, and more sustainable. Plus has received a number of industry awards and distinctions for its transformative technology and business momentum from Fast Company, Forbes, Insider, Consumer Electronics Show, AUVSI, and others. If you’re ready to make a huge impact and drive the future of autonomy, Plus is looking for talented individuals to join its fast-growing teams.

As a Senior Controls Software Engineer, you will be responsible for delivering mission-critical improvements and new features for our autonomy control stack. You will work on a small, highly focused team developing production-quality software that realizes planned vehicle trajectories using techniques in adaptive, optimal and data driven control. You will collaborate cross-functionally with other autonomy teams to perform comprehensive testing and ultimately improving control robustness for the next generation of our autonomous vehicles.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and tune autonomous vehicle control algorithms in C++
• Develop tooling and metrics for system identification, performance analysis/validation, and continuous testing frameworks.
• Perform parameter identification and benchmarking of various models.
• Build real-time parameter estimation algorithms to improve control performance.
• Perform vehicle and product-level performance analysis and tuning by taking a disciplined and data-driven approach to confirm product performance meets the market needs and the subjective/objective evaluation metrics.

Required Skills

• MS/Phd with a focus in Motion Controls, Robotics, or similar technical field of study, and/or equivalent practical experience.
• Hands-on application skills in any of the following areas: adaptive and nonlinear control, MPC & optimal control, robust control, sliding mode control, data-driven control
• Understanding of state estimation techniques such as state observers, Kalman filters, etc.
• 4 years of industry experience as an autonomous vehicle or robotics control systems software engineering professional including hands-on implementation and tuning on hardware.
• Software development experience writing production-level C++ and comfortable with Python, Matlab/Simulink, or other simulation/analysis tools used in feedback system design.
• Exposure to modern software development, version control, and project management tools - Linux, Git, Jira, etc.

Preferred Skills

• Experience implementing adaptive control techniques for autonomous vehicles.
• Experience implementing automated nonlinear system identification for vehicle fleets.
• Experience implementing safety guarantees for dynamical systems.
• Knowledge of vehicle lateral/longitudinal control actuators, e.g. torque control, steering, braking, CAN interface.
• Good skills in data science in general or preferably in data-driven controls

Salary Range

• $125,000 - $175,000 a year