# Senior/Staff Software Engineer - Motion Planning

**Company:** [Zoox](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/zoox)
**Location:** Boston, MA
**Role:** Embedded Engineering
**Salary:** $229k – $331k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** C++, A*, Rrt, Prm, ROS, Slam, CUDA, Motion Planning, Configuration Spaces, Real-Time Algorithms
**Posted:** 2025-11-05

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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**

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