Senior Software Engineer - Motion Planning

MOTIONAL SINGAPORE PTE. LIMITED; Singapore; On-site; SGD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading autonomous vehicle company in Singapore is seeking a Senior Engineer to develop advanced motion planning algorithms. Candidates should have over 5 years of C++ experience and a strong background in robotics or computer science. This role involves mentoring junior engineers and driving technical decisions within a dynamic team. Attractive opportunities for contributing to groundbreaking research in autonomous vehicle behavior await the right candidate.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of modern C++ software development.
• Experience with algorithm development in motion planning, navigation, or safety-critical systems.
• Experience leading technical development from design to delivery.

Responsibilities

• Create project proposals impacting long-term technical roadmaps.
• Contribute to discussions on new features.
• Investigate on-road performance through analyses.
• Mentor junior team members.

Skills

C++ software development

Algorithm development

Robotics

Mentoring

Education

Bachelors, Masters, or PhD in relevant field

Tools

Python

Job description

In our Motion Planning team, you'll apply your passion for robotics and software development for production-ready autonomous vehicles. In this role, you'll perform groundbreaking research, conduct design processes, and implement performance-critical algorithms to generate safe, comfortable, and intuitive autonomous vehicle behaviors across Motional’s fleet of robotaxis.

Technical Scope:

• Develop state-of-the-art motion planning algorithms to ensure the vehicle autonomously navigates safely and smoothly.
• Design and build robust and scalable software that enables rapid exploration and evaluation of different motion planning approaches and algorithms.
• Collaborate with upstream decision/behavior planning, prediction, and downstream motion tracking algorithms.
• Leverage modern development toolchains to enable rapid development cycles, including testing, simulation, and continuous integration.

Role responsibilities:

• As a senior engineer, you will be expected to create project proposals that drive long-term technical roadmap and span multiple sub-systems.
• Actively contribute to technical team discussions on new features and formulation improvements and bring new ideas.
• Investigate on-road performance with root cause analysis and in-depth bug finding.
• Understands and explains trade-offs and complex concepts to peers and leaders to drive decisions.
• Mentor junior team members to develop a culture of product-focused engineering, research, and development.

What we're looking for:

• 5+ years of modern C++ software development
• Bachelors, Masters, or PhD degree preferred in Robotics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience with algorithm development in motion planning, navigation, or any robotics or safety-critical systems.
• Experience owning and leading technical development on features from problem formulation through algorithm design and implementation to delivery with impact.

Bonus:

• Knowledge of Python
• Experience with Machine Learning based planning/control methods