Senior Motion Planning Engineer - Autonomous Trucks

Stack AV Co; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Stack AV Co is seeking a strong software engineer with motion planning experience to develop and deploy motion planning components for autonomous trucks. You will own end-to-end features, framing vehicle behaviors and delivering high-performance C++ on compute-constrained platforms.

You will collaborate closely with Trajectory, Localization, Mapping and Verification teams to ensure safe and reliable on-road performance.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in C++ and Python in resource-constrained environments.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience developing code for real-world robotics/semi-autonomous platforms.
• Eagerness to work across the decision making stack, even when it differs from past experience.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery of motion planning features from design to integration to deliver safe, smooth trajectories.
• Shape long-term architecture and roadmap while ensuring timely delivery of features.
• Collaborate with systems engineers to deliver a safe, well-tested product.
• Write clean, maintainable, high-performance code in C++ and Python.
• Coordinate with other Autonomy teams to design robust solutions across the stack.
• Work with verification teams to ensure testing and validation via unit tests and simulations.
• Present and align stakeholders through clear communication.

Skills

C++

Python

Communication

Robotics

Cross-stack collaboration

Job description

Stack AV Co is seeking a strong software engineer with motion planning experience to develop and deploy motion planning components for autonomous trucks. You will own end-to-end features, framing vehicle behaviors and delivering high-performance C++ on compute-constrained platforms.

You will collaborate closely with Trajectory, Localization, Mapping and Verification teams to ensure safe and reliable on-road performance.