Senior Motion Planning Engineer - Control, Trajectory Optimization (Remote)

Motional
Boston, MA Remote Full Time
POSTED ON 5/2/2022 CLOSED ON 11/30/2022

Job Posting for Senior Motion Planning Engineer - Control, Trajectory Optimization (Remote) at Motional

On our Motion Planning Controls team, you'll apply your passion in robotics and software development for production-ready autonomous vehicles. In this role you'll perform research, develop algorithms, and build software to generate safe, comfortable, and intuitive routes and motions.

Role responsibilities:

  • Develop state-of-the-art motion control and trajectory optimization software to ensure vehicle navigates safely and smoothly 
  • Integrate and evaluate combinations of trajectory optimization and tracking algorithms
  • Design and build robust and scalable codebase that enables rapid exploration and evaluation of different motion planning approaches and algorithms. 
  • Interface with upstream decision/behavior planning and prediction
  • Use your deep software development expertise to teach others better software practices and principles.  
  • Guide and mentor junior team members to develop a culture of product focused engineering, research, and development.

What we're looking for:

  • 3 years of C software development
  • Experience with Model Predictive Control (MPC), state estimation, robust control, vehicle dynamics, and simulation environments
  • Understanding of numerical optimization algorithms (interior point method, sequential quadratic programming, etc)
  • Experience of optimization solvers (IPOPT, Gurobi, etc)
  • Past experience owning and leading technical development on features from problem formulation through implementation
  • Bachelor's, Masters, or PhD degree preferred in Robotics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.

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 (Colorado only*) Minimum salary of $172,020/year bonus equity benefits
 *Note: Disclosure as required by sb19-085(8-5-20)

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