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ZooxZooxBoston, MA

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.

229k – 331k
Hybrid8+ YOEEmbedded Engineering

About the role

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*RrtPrmROSSlamCUDAMotion PlanningConfiguration SpacesReal-Time Algorithms
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