Overland AI
Senior Software Engineer - Planning
$160K–$230K
Seattle, WA · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 21, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of relevant experience with a bachelor's degree; OR 3+ years of relevant professional experience with an advanced degree.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related discipline; an advanced degree is an alternative under the stated experience pathway. MS degree or PhD preferred.
About the job
Designs and implements navigation planning algorithms that enable unmanned ground vehicles to move through complex terrain using local sensing.
What you'll do
- Develop planning algorithms and integrate them with perception and control teams across vehicles and sensing modalities.
- Improve and evaluate performance using off-road driving data, regression and progression testing, and field tests.
- Collaborate on development of a shared software codebase.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related discipline and 5+ years of relevant experience; OR 3+ years of relevant professional experience with an advanced degree.
- Production-grade software development experience in Python or C++.
Nice to have
- MS degree or PhD.
- Experience with mobile-robot planning in uncertain environments, DDIL systems, off-road or on-road planning, unmanned ground vehicles, or prior mapping data.
Pay
$160,000 - $190,000 annually (base salary); $200,000 - $230,000 annually (base salary)
Tools
Python, C++
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