Senior Motion Planning Engineer

Motional
Milpitas, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 6/24/2022 CLOSED ON 10/17/2022

Job Posting for Senior Motion Planning Engineer at Motional

On our Motion Planning 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 a variety of algorithms on planning for autonomous driving, including but not limited to search-based methods, sampling-based methods, optimization-based methods, linear-temporal logic, and decision making under uncertainty.
  • Integrate and evaluate combinations of motion planning and prediction algorithms
  • Design and build robust and scalable codebase that enables rapid exploration and evaluation of different motion planning approaches and algorithms. 
  • Interface with perception and prediction components upstream and trajectory optimization and tracking & control components downstream
  • 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:

  • Bachelor's required, Masters or PhD degree preferred in Robotics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field
  • 3 years of research experience in robotics / motion planning
  • 3 years of C software development
  • Past experience owning and leading technical development on features from problem formulation through implementation and deployment
  • Thirst for knowledge and continuous innovation

 

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