2 months ago
Mountain View, CA, USASenior / Staff+
H1B Sponsor
Base Salary
$180k - $260k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain the core behavior planning system for autonomous vehicles.
- Develop and extend behavior tree architectures for decision logic.
- Collaborate with motion planning, prediction, and control teams.
- Build and optimize C++-based software infrastructure for behavior planning.
- Evaluate planner performance in real-world and simulated environments.
- Participate in design reviews and system integration.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship for junior team members.
Requirements
- Ph.D. with 3+ years or Master’s with 5+ years of experience in robotics or autonomous systems.
- Proven experience in behavior planning using behavior trees or finite state machines.
- Strong proficiency in C++ with knowledge of performance and memory management.
- Solid understanding of motion planning and prediction interfaces.
- Knowledge of diffusion models or Vision-Language-Action models is a plus.
- Strong debugging, system thinking, and collaborative communication skills.