Senior/Staff Software Engineer - Motion Planning
Develop and implement algorithmic improvements for robot motion planning to enhance safe driving behaviors in complex urban environments. Requires Master's degree, 8+ years experience, C++ fluency, and expertise in planning techniques like A*, RRTs, PRMs.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Create principled algorithmic improvements to specific areas of driving behavior and implement those changes in our code base.
- Use our extensive backend tooling to test your changes across many different driving situations at the press of a button.
- Lead on-vehicle drive reviews to generate actionable feedback on driving performance. Use this experience to help the team learn and make improvements.
- Attend conferences and survey literature to stay informed on the most recent developments in the fields of Robotics and Motion Planning.
- Write and file patents for novel technologies you develop.
Qualifications
- Master's degree in Computer Science or related field and 8+ years of experience
- Fluency in C++
- Understanding of configuration spaces and a variety of planning techniques (A*, RRTs, PRMs, etc.)
- Demonstrated ability to create real-time motion planning algorithms
Bonus Qualifications
- Significant contributions to geometric- and/or sampling-based planning algorithms
- Experience with autonomous robots and machine learning or data-driven development processes
- Experience with ROS, pose estimation, SLAM, probabilistic filtering, 3D data, or CUDA
Skills
C++, A*, Rrt, Prm, ROS, Slam, CUDA, Motion Planning, Configuration Spaces, Real-Time Algorithms
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