Staff Software Engineer, Trajectory Generation & Controls

Stack AV • Pittsburgh, PA

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About The Position

The Trajectory Generation and Controls (TG&C) team develops the trajectory generation, optimization, and controls components that determine how autonomous trucks drive. The Staff Software Engineer will deliver real-time, safety-critical software from solution design through implementation, integration, and deployment, helping provide a safe, well-controlled, and comfortable vehicle experience. The role collaborates with teams across Autonomy, Systems Engineering, and Operations, with an emphasis on safety, principled engineering, and customer-oriented solutions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a closely related field.
• At least 5 years of software engineering experience.
• Experience building motion-planning and/or control systems for real-world applications.
• Knowledge and experience with optimal control or dynamic optimization, particularly model predictive control or real-time trajectory generation.
• Knowledge and experience with vehicle dynamics, system identification, and real-time control algorithms.
• Fluency in modern C++.
• Experience with Python.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s or Ph.D. degree.
• Experience with large ground vehicles.
• Experience with optimization algorithms such as sequential quadratic programming or interior point methods.
• Experience with tooling and metrics.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery of TG&C features from design through integration, providing a well-controlled, safe, and comfortable vehicle experience.
• Contribute to team roadmaps and help ensure timely feature delivery.
• Work with systems engineers to deliver a safe, well-tested product.
• Develop software using modern C++ and Python, making extensive use of unit testing, simulation, and log simulation.
• Collaborate with other Autonomy teams, including Constraint Generation, Trajectory Selection, World Fusion, Prediction, Perception, Localization, and Calibration, to design and deploy robust autonomous-driving solutions.
• Participate in design and iteration exercises and align stakeholders using strong presentation and communication skills.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior