Senior Software Engineer Planning

You will design and ship deterministic, safety-critical motion planning systems for autonomous vehicles operating under uncertainty. You will build and evaluate fallback maneuvers, analyze large-scale simulation and real-world data, tune planner behavior, and collaborate across autonomy disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement classical or ML motion planners for fallback and minimal-risk maneuvers.
• Build planners that operate reliably under degraded perception, partial observability, and system faults.
• Define and execute safe, deterministic vehicle motions, including controlled slow-downs, pull-overs, and safe stops.
• Use large-scale simulation and real-world data to evaluate planner behavior and guide parameter tuning.
• Develop metrics, analysis tools, and dashboards to understand planner performance at scale.
• Collaborate with behavior prediction, perception, controls, safety, and remote assistance teams.
• Contribute to a reusable fallback platform for trucking and other autonomy programs.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in motion planning for autonomous vehicles or robotics.
• Robotic motion planning algorithms and trajectory generation.
• Experience building deterministic, safety-critical planning systems.
• Large-scale evaluation, debugging, and tuning of planning behavior.
• C++ proficiency.
• Experience with real-time systems.
• Systems thinking and cross-functional collaboration.