Staff, Software Engineer - Motion Planning (Unstructured Environments)

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Technical Leadership Defining and maintaining the architectural vision across teams, platforms, and services to ensure scalability, reliability, maintainability, long-term technical alignment, and consistency of…
• Supporting Engineering Managers and Senior ICs in resolving complex technical design, architecture, and implementation challenges across multiple domains while balancing feasibility against business objectives
• Establishing and promoting engineering best practices for code quality, automated testing, performance optimization, monitoring, security, and operational excellence
• Conducting architecture reviews, technical deep dives, design sessions, and technical assessments to guide engineering decisions and solution direction
• Mentoring and coaching senior and mid-level engineers while helping grow future Staff and Principal engineers through technical guidance and leadership development
• Fostering a culture of engineering excellence, documentation, collaboration, innovation, and knowledge sharing across the organization
• Translating complex technical concepts, trade-offs, and architectural decisions into clear recommendations for leadership and cross-functional stakeholders
• Leading major technical initiatives such as platform modernization, observability enhancements, performance optimization, scalability improvements, and reliability engineering efforts

Job requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical field with: 10+ years of industry experience OR Master's degree with 7+ years of experience OR PhD…
• Proven experience operating as a Staff, Principal, or multi-team technical leader within complex engineering organizations including experience leading large cross-functional technical initiatives across multiple…
• Deep expertise developing robotics, autonomous vehicle, ADAS, or other complex real-time software systems.
• Deep expertise in modern C++ development within Linux-based environments.
• Diverse experience developing motion planning, trajectory generation, trajectory optimization, behavior planning, or decision-making systems for robotics or autonomous systems.
• Strong understanding of vehicle dynamics, vehicle kinematics, trajectory feasibility, and planning system architecture.
• Strong foundation in linear algebra, numerical optimization, geometry, and robotics algorithms.
• Hands-on experience with analyzing metrics to optimize performance in a resource-constrained environment.