7 months ago
Mountain View, CA, USASenior / Staff+
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$180k - $260k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and optimize motion-planning software for autonomous vehicles in diverse real-world environments.
- Develop lattice-based, sampling-based, and optimization-based planners that generate dynamically feasible, collision-free trajectories.
- Integrate perception, prediction, and control constraints to produce context-aware motion plans under uncertainty.
- Collaborate with behavior-planning, control, and mapping teams to ensure robust planning behavior.
- Optimize and maintain C++ infrastructure for trajectory generation, evaluation, and deployment in real-time onboard systems.
- Analyze closed-loop simulation and on-road performance and resolve failures involving traffic interactions, occlusions, and dynamic obstacles.
Requirements
- Ph.D. with 3+ years of experience or a Master’s degree with 5+ years of experience in robotics, motion planning, or autonomous systems.
- Deep expertise in at least two of lattice-based planning, trajectory optimization, model predictive control, or search-based planning.
- Strong proficiency in C++ and experience writing production-quality code for real-time or safety-critical systems.
- Solid understanding of vehicle dynamics, control interfaces, and motion-feasibility constraints.
- Experience with simulation tools and debugging motion-planner behavior in realistic driving environments.
- Knowledge of diffusion models and/or Vision-Language-Action models is preferred.
- Strong analytical, system-level debugging, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Benefits
- Onsite five days per week at the Mountain View, California office.
- Opportunity to work on commercially deployed Level 4 autonomous transportation technology.
- Inclusive and diverse workplace committed to employee growth and collaboration.
Tech Stack
Categories
Robotics
About Gatik AI
Gatik AI builds and operates autonomous middle‑mile trucking networks for retailers and consumer brands, delivered as a transportation‑as‑a‑service offering. Its Level 4, Class 3–7 trucks move B2B freight on short‑haul, repeatable routes, with commercial deployments in Texas, Arkansas, and Ontario, including a fully driverless service launched with Walmart in 2021. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Santa Clara, it integrates software and hardware to run driverless deliveries between warehouses and stores.