Senior Software Engineer Behavior and Motion Planning

You will design, implement, validate, deploy, and analyze behavior and motion-planning features for autonomous driving. You will debug autonomy behavior using logs, simulation, metrics, and real-world data; define validation plans; write production C++ software; participate in design and architecture reviews; and mentor engineers.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and improve behavior-planning and motion-planning features
• Own planning projects from problem definition through deployment
• Debug autonomy behavior using logs, simulation, metrics, and real-world data
• Improve planning decisions across safety, comfort, progress, and operational constraints
• Define success metrics and validation plans
• Write production-quality C++ software
• Participate in technical design reviews, code reviews, and architecture discussions
• Mentor engineers

Requirements

• Experience in behavior planning, motion planning, decision-making, robotics, autonomous vehicles, or related areas
• Strong software engineering skills
• Experience building autonomy software in industrial, production, or near-production environments
• Ability to debug complex robotics or autonomy behavior using logs, metrics, and simulation
• System-level judgment regarding safety, comfort, and deployment readiness
• Collaboration and communication skills

Benefits

• Equity
• Annual bonuses
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Infertility benefits
• Legal services
• Identity and fraud protection
• Hospital indemnity insurance
• Accident insurance
• Critical illness insurance
• Flexible PTO
• 10 paid holidays
• Parental leave
• Long-term disability insurance
• Short-term disability insurance
• Life insurance
• Headspace
• Calm
• One Medical
• Gympass
• Spring Health
• Rula
• 401(k)
• Commuter benefits
• FSA
• Dependent Care FSA
• HSA
• Free catered lunch
• Free EV charging