Staff Motion Planning Engineer

On our Motion Planning team, you'll apply your passion in robotics and software development for production-ready autonomous vehicles. In this role you'll perform research, develop algorithms, and build software to generate safe, comfortable, and intuitive routes and motions.

Role responsibilities:

• Develop a variety of algorithms on planning for autonomous driving, including but not limited to search-based methods, sampling-based methods, optimization-based methods, linear-temporal logic, and decision making under uncertainty.
• Integrate and evaluate combinations of motion planning and prediction algorithms
• Design and build robust and scalable codebase that enables rapid exploration and evaluation of different motion planning approaches and algorithms.
• Interface with perception and prediction components upstream and trajectory optimization and tracking & control components downstream
• Participate in code reviews and mentoring sessions with senior team members
• Develop a culture of product focused engineering, research, and development

What we're looking for:

• Bachelor's required, Masters or PhD degree preferred in Robotics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field
• Proven impact and expertise in the robotics / autonomous vehicle field.
• 2+ years of research experience in robotics / motion planning
• 2+ years of C++ software development
• Past experience taking projects from problem formulation through implementation and deployment
• Thirst for knowledge and continuous innovation

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