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Software Engineer Low Speed Motion Planning & Control Planning

Applied Intuition
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Stuttgart, GermanyPosted 8mo ago

About the role

Engineer role focused on designing and implementing motion planning and controls for autonomous vehicle platforms, with emphasis on infrastructure- and vehicle-side enablement, customer collaboration, and contributing to a fast-paced autonomy team.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement motion planning and controls modules that can be deployed on various vehicle platforms, enabling highly accurate autonomous navigation in tight scenarios.
  • Characterize the dynamics of customers’ vehicles to create tailored controls solutions and 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.

Qualifications

  • Passion about tackling challenging motion planning or motion control problems.
  • 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.
  • Enthusiasm for practical solutions to cutting-edge challenges in a fast-paced environment.
  • Experience writing high-performance C++ code.

Skills

Required:Motion planning and controlsVehicle dynamics characterizationOptimal control (MPC, MPPI)C++ programming
Last updated May 26, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Applied Intuition

Building vehicle intelligence | Applied Intuition

Applied Intuition is the vehicle intelligence company with the tools, Vehicle OS, and autonomy stacks for creating safe, AI-powered vehicle experiences.

AIAutonomy stacksSelf-Driving SystemSimulationTesting & ValidationVehicle IntelligenceVehicle OSai-infrastructure-and-development
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