Platform Systems Engineer; Motion Planning and Control

The role

You will define the requirements for motion planning, motion control and low-level vehicle control for autonomous vehicles. You will use physical and simulated data to build and verify those requirements, and advance vehicle dynamics simulation.

What you will do

• Create Autonomous Vehicle (AV) requirements using analytical and numerical methods, focused on motion planning, motion control and vehicle dynamics (VD).
• Own the definition and requirements development of the motion planning, motion control and low-level vehicle control contract.
• Create methods and use physical and simulated data to inform and verify principled requirements.
• Advance VD simulation in AVs.

Required qualifications

• Strong foundation in AV systems in motion planning, motion control, 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 (e.g. 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 building end-to-end motion planning and control 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 electro-mechanical problems in self-driving or robotics.
• Coding in Rust and using build and test automation tools.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and equity awards.
• Medical, vision and dental coverage.
• Unlimited vacation.
• Flexible hours and work from home support.
• Daily drinks, snacks and catered meals (when in office).
• Regularly scheduled team building activities and social events.

Before you apply

• The posting states a salary range for US and Canada locations.

About the company

Waabi, founded by Raquel Urtasun, works on Physical AI for autonomous transportation, powering commercial autonomous trucks and robotaxis. It is a technology start-up backed by partners in AI, automotive, logistics and deep tech.