Software Engineer, II - Motion Control
Torc RoboticsBlacksburg, Virginia, United States · Posted 3 days agoDescription
About The Company:
At Torc, we have always believed that autonomous vehicle technology will transform how we travel, move freight, and do business. A leader in autonomous driving since 2007, Torc has spent over a decade commercializing our solutions with experienced partners. Now a part of the Daimler family, we are focused solely on developing software for automated trucks to transform how the world moves freight. Join us and catapult your career with the company that helped pioneer autonomous technology, and the first AV software company with the vision to partner directly with a truck manufacturer.
Meet The Team:
Torc is hiring a Motion Control Engineer to develop the vehicle models and controls actuation systems that determine how our autonomous trucks navigate the world safely, efficiently, and predictably. Our team operates at the intersection of robotics, machine learning, optimization, simulation, and safety, building the core autonomy capabilities that translate perception into action.
We are seeking a Software Engineer who is passionate about solving challenging autonomy problems and building production-quality software for real-world autonomous systems.
What You'll Do:
This role is focused on motion control and vehicle modelling for autonomous vehicles in unstructured environments. You will contribute directly to the design, development, validation, and deployment of actuation capabilities and work closely with engineers across autonomy, planning, simulation, safety, and validation to help deliver safe, robust, and reliable autonomy behaviors at scale.
- Software Development
- Design, develop, and optimize vehicle motion models and controls actuation strategies for autonomous trucks.
- Incorporate vehicle kinematic and dynamic constraints into high-fidelity controls models that ensure safe, feasible, and comfortable vehicle behavior onboard and in simulation.
- Characterize the vehicle platform, including braking, steering, and acceleration
- Characterize non-linear effects, such as gear shifting and electronic stability control
- Incorporate environmental effects, such as incline, terrain type, obstacle feedback, rolling resistance, and wind.
- Evaluate controller performance across multi-dimensional assessments.
- Analyze simulation fidelity by comparing simulated and real-world performance.
- Develop production-quality software using modern C++ within a Linux environment while adhering to quality, safety, testing, and deployment best practices.
- Specify requirements and document their implementation
- Apply degraded operations capabilities for fail-safe driving
- Technical Collaboration
- Participate in software architecture discussions and contribute to technical designs that support scalable and maintainable autonomy systems.
- Participate in technical design reviews, code reviews, and continuous improvement initiatives across the Behaviors organization.
- Collaborate closely with Safety, Motion Planning, Perception, Validation, and Simulation teams to develop safe and reliable autonomous driving behaviors.
- Testing, Integration, and Metrics
- Develop and execute validation strategies across Software-in-the-Loop (SiL), Hardware-in-the-Loop (HiL), and Vehicle-in-the-Loop (ViL) environments.
- Investigate and debug vehicle behavior by reproducing issues in simulation, analyzing system performance, and implementing software improvements.
- Support vehicle integration, deployment activities, and post-deployment investigations to ensure reliable autonomy performance.
- Perform on-vehicle troubleshooting using real-time diagnostic tools and in-depth log analysis.
We are seeking a Software Engineer who is passionate about solving challenging autonomy problems and building production-quality software for real-world autonomous systems.
What You'll Need to Succeed:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical field with: 4+ years of industry experience OR Master's degree with 2+ years of experience OR PhD with 1+ years of experience.
- Experience developing robotics, autonomous vehicle, ADAS, or other complex real-time software systems.
- Strong proficiency in modern C++ development within Linux-based environments.
- Strong experience developing, testing, and tuning controllers for robotics or autonomous systems.
- Strong understanding of control theory, including stability analysis
- Experience characterizing, modeling, and simulating robotic systems
- Solid understanding of vehicle dynamics, vehicle kinematics, trajectory feasibility, and controls system architecture.
- Strong foundation in linear algebra, numerical optimization, geometry, and robotics algorithms.
- Experience supporting on-vehicle testing, debugging, and deployment activities.
- Excellent troubleshooting skills with the ability to perform both real-time diagnostics and in-depth post-analysis.
- Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals, system design principles, and scalable development practices.
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