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Senior / Staff Software Engineer, Motion Planning

$158K–$269K

Remote US & Canada +5 · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 30, 2023

Location
Remote US & Canada
Dallas, TX
Phoenix, AZ
Pittsburgh, PA
San Francisco, CA
Toronto, ON
Experience
At least 4 years of industry experience for candidates with a bachelor’s degree; MS/PhD is also accepted.
Education
MS/PhD or bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Robotics, or a similar technical field.

About the job

Design and develop motion-planning software and algorithms for autonomous vehicles operating in dynamic, uncertain traffic.

What you'll do

  • Develop motion-planning and decision-making software and algorithms.
  • Collaborate with engineers and research scientists on a reliable autonomy stack.
  • Contribute to technical and architecture discussions and rapidly prototype and test algorithms.

What they ask for

  • MS/PhD or a bachelor’s degree with at least 4 years of industry experience in Computer Science, Robotics, or a similar technical field.
  • Experience with planning or decision-making approaches, such as optimal control, optimization-based approaches, search methods, or probabilistic decision-making.
  • Production-quality coding skills in Python or C++.
  • Problem-solving skills using linear algebra, geometry, statistics, and probability.

Nice to have

  • Experience in the self-driving field.
  • Experience in optimization.

Pay

$158,000 - $269,000 USD base salary

Tools

Python, C++

AI focus

Work on an AI-first approach to autonomous driving, including motion-planning algorithms and decision-making for self-driving vehicles.

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