Senior Engineer, Motion Planning and Controls, Autonomous Driving
Lucid Motors5 hours ago
Responsibilities
- Develop trajectory optimization algorithms, including iLQR- and MPC-based approaches, for low-speed autonomous-driving scenarios.
- Design constraint-aware optimization and improve local planners to generate control-friendly trajectories.
- Refactor and scale planning-stack architecture while improving maintainability, extensibility, CPU usage, and parallel or GPU performance.
- Investigate curvature discontinuities, velocity and trajectory mismatches, edge-case steering behavior, and other real-world issues.
- Validate planning solutions using simulation, vehicle logs, multi-scenario testing, and benchmarking.
- Prototype and evaluate learned models, barrier functions, and ML-based planning approaches for production viability.
- Deliver ADAS and autonomous-driving features through requirements analysis, design, implementation, testing, tuning, SIL/HIL validation, and in-vehicle deployment.
- Collaborate across teams, document algorithm insights, support knowledge transfer, and track work in Jira.
Requirements
- M.S. or Ph.D. in Robotics, Control, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- At least 2 years of software development experience in autonomous driving, ADAS, or robotics, focused on large-scale data and real-time systems.
- Strong C and C++ programming skills and understanding of software engineering design principles and best practices.
- Demonstrated delivery of ADAS or autonomous-driving features through the full production lifecycle.
- Hands-on experience integrating software on embedded platforms such as NVIDIA Xavier, NVIDIA Orin, or Infineon Aurix.
- Experience building reliable production-grade systems, large-scale architectures, evaluation pipelines, and performance-optimized models.
- Preferred qualifications include ML-based planning experience, GPU or parallel-computing experience, and production deployment experience in real vehicles.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance; life and disability coverage; paid time off; paid holidays; paid sick leave; and a 401(k) retirement plan.
- Eligible employees may participate in Lucid’s equity program and/or discretionary annual cash incentive program.
- The role is based in Southfield, Michigan and requires employees to work onsite five days per week.
About Lucid Motors
Lucid Motors designs, manufactures, and sells premium electric vehicles, including the Lucid Air sedan and Gravity SUV, built on its in-house EV platform. The public company, founded in 2016 and headquartered in Newark, California, sells directly through its website and showrooms and operates manufacturing in Arizona. It also supplies powertrain technology to other automakers and develops software and driver-assistance features for its vehicles.