Controls Engineer
Job description
Role: Controls Engineer
Location: San Diego, CA (On-site)
We’re comma.ai and we are building the robotics stack that will solve self driving cars. We already operate the second largest fleet after Tesla and we own our stack from shipping state of the art machine learning models trained on our own infrastructure, building the operating system, designing the hardware, and manufacturing it.
We don't care where, or even if, you went to school. We don't care if you have a traditional background. We're just looking for people who can independently contribute to shipping openpilot. As a Controls Engineer, you’ll work on steering, gas, and brake controls for the 300 different cars openpilot supports. Your work will directly affect how cars behave on the road—and how they feel to the driver.
Responsibilities:
- Design and implement controls on our real fleet of cars
- Tune longitudinal and lateral performance across car models with different dynamics
- Simulate, test, and deploy changes to our fleet
- Analyze fleet telemetry to improve controller reliability and responsiveness
Qualifications:
- Good programming skills
- Solid understanding of control theory
- Familiarity with vehicle dynamics, robotics, or autonomous systems
- Bonus: experience working on physical robots, autonomous cars, or drones
Perks:
- Chef-prepared lunch and dinner
- On-site gym and yoga studio
- 24/7 access to the comma fleet of cars
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Flexible time off
We love a great GitHub, open source contributors, good projects, and competition winners. Can you solve our challenge? To apply, complete the controls challenge then reach into work@comma.ai