Robotics Engineer: Vehicle Control & Motion Planning Specialist

Tera AI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Tera AI is a stealth VC-backed startup building a spatial AI platform to universally solve autonomy, training our own AI models. The team includes AI pioneers from Google X, Google Brain, and space agencies, with field testing in San Francisco or San Diego on-site.

The company emphasizes deep ideation around new autonomy use cases in cars, drones, and robots, with a history of leadership and deep commercialization insights across multiple enterprise segments.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in C++ with Python for robotics programming.
• Experience with vehicle controls and state feedback.
• Knowledge of motion planning and obstacle avoidance.
• Understanding of safety envelopes for loss of localization or traction.
• Experience with ROS 2 preferred.
• Experience with off-road/ground vehicles domains bonus.

Skills

C++

Python

Control systems

Vehicle dynamics

Motion planning

Safety design

ROS 2

Drive-by-wire

CAN integration

Tools

ROS 2

Openpilot

Drive-by-wire

CAN bus

Job description

Tera AI is a stealth VC-backed startup building a spatial AI platform to universally solve autonomy, training our own AI models. The team includes AI pioneers from Google X, Google Brain, and space agencies, with field testing in San Francisco or San Diego on-site.

The company emphasizes deep ideation around new autonomy use cases in cars, drones, and robots, with a history of leadership and deep commercialization insights across multiple enterprise segments.