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Senior Staff Software Engineer, Controls

Gatik
Mountain View, California
Full Time
Posted August 19, 2025
$180k - $250k
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Job Description

The role involves designing, developing, testing, and supporting real-time control and optimization software for autonomous vehicles in a production environment, collaborating with research and engineering teams to enable safe, reliable, and efficient autonomous middle-mile logistics operations.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and support real-time mission-critical software for the autonomy stack
  • Collaborate with research engineers to develop maintainable, testable, and robust software
  • Develop, design, and implement control and optimization methods in simulation and in-vehicle testing
  • Support rapid prototyping of new methodologies via SiL and HiL
  • Participate in tuning, calibration, and in-vehicle testing of autonomous systems
  • Visualize and analyze test data to validate system performance
  • Collaborate with planning, localization, dbw, and testing teams for software integration

Requirements

  • A MSc or PhD in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or Computer Science with a background in controls and optimization.
  • Deep understanding of optimal control, Model Predictive Control (MPC), and Kalman filtering.
  • At least 5 years of production-level experience in C and C++ high and low level coding and Matlab Simulink.
  • Experience using optimization techniques and tools solvers to create robust and performant controllers.
  • Solid background in mathematics and linear algebra, and vehicle dynamics modeling and controls.
  • At least 2 years of experience in the Autonomous Vehicles (AV) and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) industries.
  • Experience using source control, containerization, bash scripting, ROS2, CAN, Python, and Linux.

Benefits & Perks

Salary range of 180,000-250,000
Onsite work schedule, 5 days a week
Work environment perks include collaboration, respect, agility, diversity, and inclusion

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