Senior Vehicle Controls Engineer Job Alpharetta area,Georgia USA,Engineering

We are looking for a hands-on Senior Vehicle Controls Engineer to own the systems that convert a planned trajectory into safe, stable, and comfortable steering, braking, and acceleration commands on a real vehicle.

Proven experience designing, implementing, tuning, and testing vehicle-control systems on real physical vehicles
Experience with lateral and/or longitudinal control for cars, autonomous vehicles, mobile machinery, or similar wheeled vehicles
Strong understanding of feedback control, stability, dynamic systems, and vehicle dynamics
Experience with steering, throttle, braking, or drive-by-wire systems
Experience with CAN bus, vehicle signals, and actuator command interfaces
Ability to develop production-quality real-time control software in C++, C, or another suitable real-time language
Experience with Python, MATLAB, or equivalent for modeling, system identification, log analysis, and controller evaluation
Strong debugging and real-world testing skills
Ability to work directly with vehicle hardware and participate in track or road testing
Ability to demonstrate at least one control system taken from design through physical deployment, including tuning, validation, performance measurement, and safety mechanisms

Nice-to-have skills:

Passenger-car ADAS or autonomous-driving development
Electronic power steering, brake-by-wire, throttle control, ESC, or vehicle motion-control systems
Model Predictive Control (MPC), optimal control, robust control, or nonlinear control
State estimation, observers, sensor fusion, or tyre-force estimation
Embedded Linux, RTOS, or safety-critical real-time systems
Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) or vehicle-in-the-loop testing
Functional safety, including ISO 26262 or SOTIF
Experience with Openpilot, Autoware, Apollo, ROS, MATLAB/Simulink, Car Sim, IPG Car Maker, dSPACE, or similar platforms