Zoox
Software Engineer - Motion Planning
$168K–$270K
Foster City, CA · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Feb 8, 2016
- Experience
- Relevant experience required; no number of years stated.
- Education
- Master's degree in Computer Science or related field and relevant experience.
About the job
Develop and test motion-planning algorithms that improve the autonomous vehicle’s driving behavior and safety on public roads.
What you'll do
- Develop and implement algorithmic improvements to driving behavior, and test them in varied driving situations.
- Lead on-vehicle drive reviews and use feedback to improve driving performance.
- Survey robotics and motion-planning research and write and file patents for novel technologies.
What they ask for
- Fluency in C++.
- Understanding of configuration spaces and planning techniques such as A*, RRTs, and PRMs.
- Demonstrated ability to create real-time motion-planning algorithms.
Nice to have
- Significant contributions to geometric- and/or sampling-based planning algorithms.
- Experience with autonomous robots, machine learning or data-driven development, ROS, pose estimation, SLAM, probabilistic filtering, 3D data, or CUDA.
Pay
USD 168,000–270,000 (base salary)
Tools
C++, A*, RRTs, PRMs, ROS, CUDA
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