Overland AI
Software Engineer - Trajectory Optimization
$160K–$230K
Seattle, WA · On-site · 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 when paired with 3+ years of relevant professional experience. MS degree or PhD preferred.
About the job
Designs and implements trajectory-planning algorithms that help unmanned ground vehicles navigate off-road and on-road terrain using local sensing.
What you'll do
- Develop local trajectory-optimization algorithms and adapt them for different vehicles and sensing modalities.
- Collaborate on a shared software codebase and use driving data for regression and progression testing.
- Participate in field tests, demonstrations, and product evaluation.
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 motion planning, safety-critical systems, autonomous robotics, or GPU and CPU programming paradigms; UGV experience preferred.
Pay
$160,000 - $190,000 annually (base salary); $200,000 - $230,000 annually (base salary)
Tools
Python, C++
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