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Senior/Staff Software Engineer - Motion Planning

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10 months ago
Boston, MA, USASenior / Staff+
H1B Sponsor

Responsibilities

  • Create and implement principled algorithmic improvements to driving behavior in the codebase.
  • Use backend tooling to test changes across diverse driving situations.
  • Lead on-vehicle drive reviews and turn driving-performance feedback into improvements.
  • Attend conferences and survey literature on robotics and motion planning.
  • Write and file patents for novel technologies developed.

Requirements

  • Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field and 8+ years of experience.
  • Fluency in C++.
  • Understanding of configuration spaces and planning techniques including A*, RRTs, and PRMs.
  • Demonstrated ability to create real-time motion-planning algorithms.
  • Significant contributions to geometric- or sampling-based planning algorithms are a bonus qualification.
  • Experience with autonomous robots and machine learning or data-driven development processes is a bonus qualification.
  • Experience with ROS, pose estimation, SLAM, probabilistic filtering, 3D data, or CUDA is a bonus qualification.

Tech Stack

Categories

Robotics
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About Zoox

1,001-5,000 employees

Zoox is transforming mobility-as-a-service by developing a fully autonomous, purpose-built fleet designed for AI to drive and humans to enjoy.

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