Software Engineer II, Motion Planning

Booster; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Gatik seeks a Senior or Staff Software Engineer for its Mountain View, CA office. This role involves designing and testing algorithms for motion planning in autonomous vehicles, ensuring safe vehicle behavior, and contributing to Gatik's innovative tech.

The ideal candidate holds a Masters' or Ph.D. in a relevant field and has 2+ years of hands-on experience in software development for autonomous vehicles. Additional skills include expertise in C/C++, Python, and cloud infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of related experience in software development for autonomous vehicles.
• Experience with high-performance computing and code optimization.
• Ability to collaborate with engineers on system integration.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and test algorithms for motion planning.
• Ensure safe and smooth vehicle behavior on roads.
• Integrate algorithms into Gatik’s software stack.

Skills

C/C++

Python

Cloud infrastructure (G-Cloud or AWS)

Real-time behavior and motion planning

Education

Masters’ or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics or related field

Job description

Who we are:

Founded in 2017, Gatik is the leader in autonomous middle mile logistics. We deliver goods safely and efficiently using medium duty trucks with a focus on short-haul, B2B logistics for Fortune 500 customers such as Walmart and Loblaw. Gatik enables our customers to optimize their hub-and-spoke operations, enhance service levels and product flow across multiple locations while reducing labor costs and meeting an unprecedented expectation for faster deliveries.

About the role:

We are seeking senior or staff software engineers to join our planning team to build motion planning and decision-making systems and help mature new products all the way through to production. Our planning team calculates safe paths for the autonomous vehicle to follow using mapping data, localization data, waypoints, and predicted actors around the vehicle. Your contribution will improve planning for emergency situations and planning for complicated maneuvers such as loading dock access and variable lane changes.

This role is onsite 5 days a week at our Mountain View, CA office!

What you\'ll do:

• Design, build, and test the algorithms for motion and behavior planning for autonomous driving on urban roads and highways.


• Provide end-to-end ownership of the path planning and decision-making systems, ensuring that the behavior of Gatik\'s vehicles is safe, smooth, and predictable to other road users.


• Build tools that prioritize and debug issues and contribute to the development of simulation architecture to enable Gatik\'s software stack to be trained, tested, prototyped, and validated in a virtual environment.


• Develop a thorough understanding of the constraints and challenges of path planning for Gatik\'s unique use case and ODD.


• Own the vehicle functions end to end, integrate the algorithms into Gatik\'s software stack, and mature them to production quality.


• Automate scenario generation of on-road experiences using analytical and learned techniques.

What we\'re looking for:

• Masters’ or Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics or related field


• 2+ years of related experience


• Expertise in large-scale cloud infrastructure, e.g. G-Cloud or AWS


• Industry experience with software development for autonomous vehicles


• Experience with C/C++, Python


• Experience in code optimization or high-performance computing


• Experience in designing and implementing real-time on-device behavior and motion planning and control algorithms.


• Experience in collaborating with other engineers on system integration and scaling up product deployment.


• Experience in conducting code and design reviews.

More about Gatik:

With headquarters in Mountain View, CA and offices in Canada, Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas, Gatik is establishing new standards of success for the autonomous trucking industry every day.

Note: This role does not include promotional content or application-process information beyond the job description itself. Gatik is committed to an inclusive and diverse team. We do not discriminate based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any legally protected status.