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Senior Software Engineer, Controls (MATLAB)

Hybrid Vehicles💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-30

Core

Designing and implementing feedback, control, and actuation strategies for safety-critical motion control in autonomous trucks.

Role type

Senior IC controls software engineer (MATLAB/Simulink)

Builds

Reliable, redundant, and safety-critical software for fully-loaded autonomous trucks

Domain

Autonomous ground transportation / Commercial trucking

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

MATLAB & Simulink, automatic code generation to embedded C/C++, system identification, modeling, simulation, characterization of complex dynamics, redundant actuation, fail-safe control, end-to-end vehicle safety

Preferred skills

production C++, hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing, safety-critical domain experience (automotive/aerospace), low-level drivers (CAN/ethernet), real-time operating systems, formal verification, ISO26262 process

Technologies

MATLAB, Simulink, C, C++, CAN, ethernet, real-time operating systems

Responsibilities

Design and implement feedback, control, and actuation strategies; Architect, develop, and test reliable, redundant, and safety-critical software; Characterize vehicle platform to develop models for motion planning and simulation; Work on fundamental problems in redundant actuation and fail-safe control; Collaborate with hardware, embedded systems, and systems engineering teams; Create requirement specifications, implement features, plan testing, and document results

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