Senior Motion Planning Engineer for Autonomous Trucks

PlusAI Inc; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Catered lunch and snacks

401(k) plan

Job summary

PlusAI Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer on the Motion Planning team to design and implement planning algorithms for autonomous trucks. You will handle decision making, trajectory generation, and integration with the production stack, ensuring safety and reliability in real-world driving.

The role requires strong C++ production skills, experience with ROS, CasADi/Acados, and collaboration across ML and prediction teams to model uncertainty and multi‑future scenarios.

Qualifications

• MS or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, or related field.
• Strong production software development skills in C++ and Python.
• Robotics expertise in path planning, motion planning, trajectory generation, or related areas.
• Experience designing and refining planning algorithms on real‑world robots or vehicles.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement decision‑making and trajectory generation algorithms ensuring safety and reliability.
• Bring robotics and ML techniques from research into production‑grade planning systems.
• Collaborate with ML and prediction teams to integrate probabilistic, multi‑future representations into planning.

Skills

C++ development

Python

Robotics planning

Math & physics

Cross-team collaboration

Education

MS or PhD in CS/Robotics

Tools

CasADi

Acados

ROS

Git

Job description

PlusAI Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer on the Motion Planning team to design and implement planning algorithms for autonomous trucks. You will handle decision making, trajectory generation, and integration with the production stack, ensuring safety and reliability in real-world driving.

The role requires strong C++ production skills, experience with ROS, CasADi/Acados, and collaboration across ML and prediction teams to model uncertainty and multi‑future scenarios.