7 months ago
Mountain View, CA, USASenior / Staff+
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$180k - $260k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain the core autonomous-vehicle behavior-planning system.
- Develop behavior-tree architectures for mission planning, tactical maneuvers, and contingency handling.
- Collaborate with motion-planning, prediction, and control teams to connect high-level decisions with executable trajectories.
- Build and optimize C++ infrastructure and tools for simulation, debugging, visualization, and closed-loop testing.
- Evaluate planner performance, identify failure modes, and improve robustness and generalization.
- Participate in design reviews and full autonomy-stack integration.
- Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and architectural guidance to junior team members.
Requirements
- Ph.D. with 3+ years or a master’s degree with 5+ years of industry experience in robotics, autonomous systems, or behavior planning.
- Proven experience with behavior planning using behavior trees, finite state machines, or rule-based planners in autonomous driving or robotics applications.
- Strong proficiency in C++, including performance, memory management, and production software architecture.
- Understanding of motion-planning and prediction interfaces, with experience building real-time, safety-critical systems.
- Knowledge of diffusion models and/or Vision-Language-Action models is strongly preferred.
- Strong debugging, systems thinking, and collaborative communication skills.
Benefits
- Onsite five days per week at the Mountain View, California office.
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.