Senior/Staff Software Engineer - Controls

Posted 17 Days Ago
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Foster City, CA
Hybrid
242K-349K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Machine Learning • Robotics • Software • Transportation • Design • Manufacturing
Zoox is an autonomous mobility company that’s created a purpose-built robotaxi to give the world a better way to ride.
The Role
The role involves architecting and implementing control strategies for vehicle dynamics, defining test specifications, working with validation teams, and ensuring safety in control software development.
Summary Generated by Built In
Zoox is looking for a controls engineer to join our Planning and Control team. The controls team is responsible for our vehicle’s longitudinal and lateral dynamics. You will also work closely with other teams within the company, such as the Trajectory Planner team, to define suitable interfaces for the controls tasks. We are looking for a software engineer with technical expertise in control of complex dynamic systems.

In this role, you will:

  • Architect and implement control strategies for our vehicle’s longitudinal and lateral dynamics
  • Define specifications and test suites to tune parameters and compare the performance of different controllers
  • Work with validation team to define and execute tests for developed controllers
  • Contribute to failure and hazard analyses and implement safety mitigations in the control software
  • Work with the firmware team to ensure robust, safety-critical controller implementations in the hardened real-time embedded systems
  • Work with the simulation team to integrate controllers in the simulation environment for development and validation

Qualifications

  • BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field, and 8+ years of relevant experience
  • Strong programming skills in C / C++
  • Strong background in controls (PID, LQR, MPC, etc.) and filter design (FIR, IIR, etc.) for complex dynamic systems
  • Understanding of vehicle dynamics and automotive sensors and actuators
  • Extensive experience with programming and algorithm design as well as strong mathematical and geometrical skills

Bonus Qualifications

  • PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field
  • Excellent leadership, project management, and organizational skills
  • Experience implementing a control system in a real-world product

Top Skills

C
C++
Control Systems
Real-Time Embedded Systems
Simulation
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The Company
HQ: Foster City, CA
2,500 Employees
Year Founded: 2014

What We Do

Zoox is an autonomous mobility company that was founded to provide a safer, cleaner, and more enjoyable future on the road. To achieve that goal, the company has spent the past 10 years creating a purpose-built robotaxi that gives the world a better way to ride.

Why Work With Us

At Zoox, we are working to solve one of the greatest technological challenges of our generation.
From the beginning, we have been focused on our goal of reimagining transportation from the ground up. We are a mission-driven community of innovators working together to create a safer, cleaner, and more enjoyable future on the road.

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