Senior Software Engineer, AV Planner, Autonomous Vehicles

What you'll do

• Develop and ship behavior and trajectory planning for L4 robotaxis including lane changes, merges, and intersections.
• Write new software modules from scratch to drive vehicles safely and comfortably in dense urban environments.
• Build optimization, sampling, and search-based planning approaches that incorporate vehicle dynamics and road-rule compliance.
• Define and implement fallback behaviors and minimal risk maneuvers for safety-oriented design.
• Integrate planning with prediction, perception, and controls while defining clean interfaces and troubleshooting system issues.
• Build and improve offline and closed-loop simulation benchmarks to measure safety, legality, and progress.
• Create tools to accelerate debugging, scenario triage, evaluation automation, and parameter management across platforms.
• Support on-vehicle issue reproduction and resolution across different platforms and vehicle types.

What we're looking for

• BS, MS, or higher degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 12+ years of experience in the relevant field.
• Strong software engineering skills in C/C++ for production-quality, performance-aware, and testable code.
• Python experience for tooling and evaluation (preferred).
• Hands-on background in motion planning, decision-making, optimization, search, sampling-based planning, geometry, vehicle dynamics/kinematics, or real-time systems.
• Experience building and using simulation and evaluation pipelines, writing unit/integration tests, and preventing regressions via automation.
• Strong debugging skills across multi-module systems and ability to communicate clearly across functions.
• Hands-on experience shipping urban/L4 robotaxi planning, interaction-aware planning, or automotive safety concepts (preferred).