Senior / Staff Software Engineer - Motion Planning

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Create principled algorithmic improvements to specific areas of driving behavior and implement those changes in our code base.
• Use our extensive backend tooling to test your changes across many different driving situations at the press of a button.
• Lead on-vehicle drive reviews to generate actionable feedback on driving performance. Use this experience to help the team learn and make improvements.
• Attend conferences and survey literature to stay informed on the most recent developments in the fields of Robotics and Motion Planning.
• Write and file patents for novel technologies you develop.

Job requirements

• Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field and 8+ years of experience
• Fluency in C++
• Understanding of configuration spaces and a variety of planning techniques (A*, RRTs, PRMs, etc.)
• Demonstrated ability to create real-time motion planning algorithms
• Significant contributions to geometric- and/or sampling-based planning algorithms
• Experience with autonomous robots and machine learning or data-driven development processes
• Experience with ROS, pose estimation, SLAM, probabilistic filtering, 3D data, or CUDA