Senior Software Engineer, Planning Infrastructure

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Build tools and infrastructure that accelerate Planning development.
• Improve testing, debugging, metrics, and evaluation workflows.
• Expose actionable insights from logs, simulation, and real-world autonomy data.
• Build infrastructure that supports safety case development and test coverage analysis.
• Improve internal libraries, developer workflows, and Planning observability.
• Optimize performance, maintainability, and reliability of Planning software.
• Partner closely with Planning engineers to identify bottlenecks and improve development velocity.
• Design reusable systems and abstractions used across the Planning team.

Job requirements

• Strong software engineering background with 5+ years experience with C++ performance optimization and large-scale software systems, ideally with autonomy or robotics systems.
• Experience building tools, libraries, frameworks, infrastructure, or developer workflows.
• Ability to write clean, maintainable, high-performance code.
• Experience with metrics, logs, testing, debugging tools, simulation, or data-driven evaluation.
• Strong systems thinking and ability to understand complex engineering workflows.
• Interest in autonomy, robotics, or planning systems.
• Strong collaboration skills and interest to build tools that make other engineers more effective.