Senior Vehicle Controls Engineer
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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.
Requirements
- 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, CarSim, IPG CarMaker, dSPACE, or similar platforms
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Globaldev
View Company ProfileGlobaldev is an enterprise-grade offshore software engineering and staff augmentation partner designed to seamlessly bridge technology gaps for startups, product companies, and large-scale enterprises. Operating a massive global talent pool of over 450 professionals across 20+ countries, the firm acts as a high-velocity execution engine for custom software development, cloud migrations, and complex high-load system scaling. Rather than operating as a traditional IT outsourcing vendor, Globaldev functions as a strategic technical partner with a specialized "Global AI Lab." This dedicated unit engineers predictive, conversational, and agentic AI modelsโincluding smart assistants like GenIA for automated technical recruitingโdirectly embedding advanced data analytics and machine learning into existing corporate workflows. What sets Globaldev apart is its uncompromising dedication to process transparency and talent retention, ensuring that clients can rapidly deploy scalable, secure, and highly governed digital products without the overhead of building in-house technical infrastructure.
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