Summer 2023: Formulation Intern

Formulation Intern 

Mission Summary:

• You will be joining the trajectory formulation team in the controls group at Motional
• You will directly contribute to Motional's driverless future by helping to formulate trajectory optimization problems that consider uncertainty
• You will engage with the controls team on solving challenging motion planning, trajectory optimization, and controls problems
• You will have the ability to experiment with optimal controls approaches that consider uncertainty and work with self-driving vehicles in real-life uncertain environments
• You will help contribute to a breakthrough in how uncertainty is handled in vehicle's trajectory optimization approaches

What You'll Be Doing

• You will be working day to day with the Controls team to design, test, and implement new motion planning approaches for uncertainty
• You will gain the experience of working in a modern development environment with real motion planning algorithms
• You will directly be able to analyze and test the vehicle's performance as the results of new algorithmic changes
• You will directly contribute to making the vehicle's planning algorithms more robust to real world uncertainties

What We are Looking For:

• Candidates with prior experience in controls, motion planning, optimization, model predictive control
• Candidates capable of working in a fast-paced development environment, and willing to quickly try out and prove ideas
• Candidates with experience working with Python and C++ for developing motion control algorithms
• Candidates passionate about motion planning and controls problems in the automated vehicle space

Bonus Points:

• Experience with Forces and Casadi
• Experience with dynamical system modeling 

If you don't meet 100% of the qualifications outlined above - that's okay! We encourage you to apply if you think this is a role that would make you excited to come into work every day and that you can deliver the results we need.

Why you should join us:

• Be part of the heart of a core team tackling the trajectory optimization problem
• Grow your knowledge by working with and developing real-time motion planning approaches under uncertainty
• Gain the skills of working on state-of-the-art trajectory optimization methods in industry