Platform Systems Engineer; Motion Planning and Control

Waabi Waabi · Robotics · Phoenix, AZ +2 · Systems Engineering

This role focuses on defining and developing requirements for motion planning, motion control, and vehicle dynamics in an autonomous vehicle system. It involves creating methods, using data for verification, and advancing simulation, with a strong emphasis on systems engineering and control theory within a Level 4 AV context.

What you'd actually do

  1. Create Autonomous Vehicle (AV) Requirements using analytical and numerical methods, with focus on motion planning, motion control and Vehicle Dynamics (VD).
  2. Own the definition and requirements development of the Motion Planning, Motion Control and low level vehicle control contract.
  3. Create methods and use physical and simulated data to inform and verify principled requirements
  4. Advance VD simulation in AVs.

Skills

Required

  • Strong foundation in AV systems in motion planning, motion control and VD and low level actuator control.
  • Strong physics and control systems knowledge.
  • Knowledge of Systems Engineering and Verification and Validation (V&V) best practices.
  • Knowledge of functional safety standards (i.e. ISO 26262).
  • Comprehensive coding skills in Python, or other common programming languages.
  • Risk modeling, translating probabilistic safety goals into physical metrics, and quantifying system uncertainty (including correlated errors).
  • Requirements decomposition from high-level safety goals into detailed, verifiable functional and technical requirements for a Level 4 AV system.
  • Experience in VD simulation (use) and VD tools development (build).

Nice to have

  • Applied and proven experience in building end to end motion planning and control systems systems.
  • Commercial trucking actuator system and truck dynamics and control.
  • Applied and proven experience of optimal control systems.
  • A strong passion for robotics systems and an intuitive understanding of actual electro-mechanical problems in the context of self-driving or robotics.
  • Coding in Rust and using build and test automation tools.

What the JD emphasized

  • Level 4 AV system