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Senior Vehicle Controls Engineer

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We are looking for a hands-on Senior Vehicle Controls Engineer to own the systems that convert a planned trajectory into safe, stable, and comfortable steering, braking, and acceleration commands on a real vehicle.

Requirements

- Proven experience designing, implementing, tuning, and testing vehicle-control systems on real physical vehicles

- Experience with lateral and/or longitudinal control for cars, autonomous vehicles, mobile machinery, or similar wheeled vehicles

- Strong understanding of feedback control, stability, dynamic systems, and vehicle dynamics

- Experience with steering, throttle, braking, or drive-by-wire systems

- Experience with CAN bus, vehicle signals, and actuator command interfaces

- Ability to develop production-quality real-time control software in C++, C, or another suitable real-time language

- Experience with Python, MATLAB, or equivalent for modeling, system identification, log analysis, and controller evaluation

- Strong debugging and real-world testing skills

- Ability to work directly with vehicle hardware and participate in track or road testing

- Ability to demonstrate at least one control system taken from design through physical deployment, including tuning, validation, performance measurement, and safety mechanisms

Nice-to-have skills:

- Passenger-car ADAS or autonomous-driving development

- Electronic power steering, brake-by-wire, throttle control, ESC, or vehicle motion-control systems

- Model Predictive Control (MPC), optimal control, robust control, or nonlinear control

- State estimation, observers, sensor fusion, or tyre-force estimation

- Embedded Linux, RTOS, or safety-critical real-time systems

- Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) or vehicle-in-the-loop testing

- Functional safety, including ISO 26262 or SOTIF

- Experience with Openpilot, Autoware, Apollo, ROS, MATLAB/Simulink, CarSim, IPG CarMaker, dSPACE, or similar platforms

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