Principal Engineer Motion Planning

Motional is a driverless technology company making autonomous vehicles a safe, reliable, and accessible reality. In this role, you will apply your passion in robotics and software development to research, develop algorithms, and build software for autonomous vehicles, focusing on motion planning and route generation.

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
• Participate in code reviews and mentoring sessions with senior team members
• Develop a culture of product focused engineering, research, and development

Requirements:

• Bachelor's required, Masters or PhD degree preferred in Robotics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field
• Proven impact and expertise in the robotics / autonomous vehicle field
• 2+ years of research experience in robotics / motion planning
• 2+ years of C++ software development
• Past experience taking projects from problem formulation through implementation and deployment
• Thirst for knowledge and continuous innovation