Senior Motion Planning Engineer - Onroad Autonomy

Applied Intuition; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 245,000; Full time

Job summary

Applied Intuition in Sunnyvale, CA seeks a software engineer specializing in motion planning for autonomous vehicles. You will develop planning modules that produce traversable trajectories and deploy them to production hardware.

The role emphasizes high-performance C++ development, collaboration with customers, and handling diverse ODDs. If you’re hands-on and thrive in a fast-paced autonomy environment, this is the place for you.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or related field.
• 3+ years of experience building production software using modern software practices.
• Experience developing planning solutions for autonomous vehicles or other mobile robots.
• Fluency in writing modern, high-performance C++ code.
• Experience shipping code for robotics or autonomous vehicles.
• A passion for tackling challenging planning problems involving a wide array of vehicles.

Responsibilities

• Develop state-of-the-art onroad behavior software and leverage ML components to achieve highway and city driving.
• Design and implement planning modules that can be deployed on onroad vehicles for autonomous navigation.
• Leverage lightweight map data (SD maps) and the outputs of a perception system to determine driving costs to use for planning.
• Deploy your planning modules to production hardware and test on the road.
• Collaborate with customers’ engineers and manage customer relationships.

Skills

C++ development

Autonomous systems experience

Planning algorithms

Education

Bachelor's in CS/EE/Robotics

MSc/PhD in CS or Applied Math (nice to have)

Job description

Applied Intuition in Sunnyvale, CA seeks a software engineer specializing in motion planning for autonomous vehicles. You will develop planning modules that produce traversable trajectories and deploy them to production hardware.

The role emphasizes high-performance C++ development, collaboration with customers, and handling diverse ODDs. If you’re hands-on and thrive in a fast-paced autonomy environment, this is the place for you.