Motion Planning Engineer - Trajectory Generation

Job description

On our Motion team, you will have the unique opportunity to be part of a dynamic team consisting of world class talent that is responsible for delivering robust trajectory generation algorithms for Motional’s commercial driverless endeavors. You will leverage your expertise in motion planning, robotics, and software development to advance the capabilities of production-ready autonomous vehicles. In this role, you will conduct innovative research, lead design processes, and implement performance-critical algorithms that enable safe, comfortable, and intuitive autonomous vehicle behaviors across Motional’s fleet of robotaxis.

This role is at the intersection of product development and…

Job responsibilities

Understands and explains trade-offs, complex concepts to peers and leaders to drive decisions.
Collaborate with teams working on (ML) decision/behavior planning, prediction, and vehicle control to build comprehensive and integrated solutions
Creates project proposals that drive long-term technical roadmaps and span multiple sub-systems.

Job requirements

0 - 3+ years of C++ software development (educational experience working on projects, internships, PhD research also counts)
Experience with Model Predictive Control (MPC), motion planning, planning under uncertainty, vehicle dynamics and control, and simulation environments
Understanding of numerical optimization algorithms (interior point method, sequential quadratic programming, etc)
Experience with optimization solvers (IPOPT, Gurobi, etc)
Past experience owning and leading technical development on features from problem formulation, algorithm design, through implementation
Knowledge of Python is a bonus
Strong team player with excellent communication skills

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