2 months ago
Mountain View, CA, USASenior
Base Salary
$185k - $245k/yr
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 the autonomy system’s balance of safety, comfort, progress, and operational constraints.
- Collaborate with Prediction, Controls, Perception, ML, Simulation, Systems, and Safety teams.
- Define success metrics and validation plans for planning features.
- Write production-quality C++ software.
- Participate in technical design reviews, code reviews, and architecture discussions.
- Mentor junior and senior engineers.
Requirements
- Experience in behavior planning, motion planning, decision-making, robotics, autonomous vehicles, or related areas.
- Strong software engineering skills, preferably in C++.
- Experience building autonomy software in industrial, production, or near-production environments.
- Ability to debug complex robotics or autonomy behavior using logs, metrics, and simulation.
- Strong system-level judgment around safety, comfort, and deployment readiness.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation package including equity and annual bonuses.
- Medical, dental, and vision plans through Kaiser Permanente, Cigna, and MetLife, including infertility benefits.
- MetLife Legal Services, identity and fraud protection, hospital indemnity, accident, and critical illness insurance.
- Flexible PTO, 10 paid holidays, and generous parental leave policies.
- Mountain View, California office with dog-friendly amenities, free catered lunch, a stocked kitchen, and free EV charging.
- Long-term disability, short-term disability, and life insurance.
- Wellbeing benefits including Headspace, Calm, One Medical, Gympass, Spring Health, and Rula.
- Fidelity 401(k), commuter benefits, FSA, dependent care FSA, and HSA.
- Referral bonuses, patent bonuses, and other incentive programs.
- Office-based role in Mountain View, California.
Tech Stack
Categories
Robotics
