Base Salary
$172k - $229k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop motion control and trajectory optimization algorithms that produce safe, comfortable, and intuitive vehicle motion.
- Design and build robust, scalable software for production autonomous vehicles and evaluate control and motion-planning techniques.
- Conduct code and design reviews in C++ based on an understanding of team services and technologies.
- Use testing, simulation, and continuous-integration toolchains to support rapid development cycles.
- Collaborate with decision and behavior planning, prediction, and vehicle-control teams on integrated solutions.
- Create project proposals and technical roadmaps spanning multiple subsystems.
- Explain complex concepts and trade-offs to peers and leaders to drive technical decisions.
- Mentor junior team members and promote product-focused engineering, research, and development.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of C++ software development experience.
- A bachelor’s, master’s, or PhD degree in Robotics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field is preferred.
- Experience with Model Predictive Control, motion planning, planning under uncertainty, vehicle dynamics and control, and simulation environments.
- Understanding of numerical optimization algorithms such as interior point methods and sequential quadratic programming.
- Experience with optimization solvers such as IPOPT and Gurobi.
- Demonstrated ownership and technical leadership across problem formulation, algorithm design, and implementation.
- Knowledge of Python is a bonus.
Benefits
- Benefits may include medical, dental, vision, 401(k) with company match, health savings accounts, life insurance, and pet insurance.
- The role encourages a hybrid schedule with office time in Boston or Pittsburgh, or may be fully remote.
About Motional
Motional is an autonomous vehicle technology company on a mission to make driverless vehicles a safe, reliable, and accessible reality. The company formed in 2020 and is majority-owned by Hyundai Motor Group, one of the world’s largest vehicle manufacturers. Motional has extensive experience in commercial robotaxi operations, with service currently available on the Uber network in Las Vegas and plans for driverless operations by the end of 2026. Headquartered in Boston, Motional has operations in the U.S. and Singapore. To explore our current openings, please visit our careers page at motional.com/careers. Please be alert for job recruitment scams, including fraudulent job postings, offers, and communications by individuals or entities purporting to be affiliated with Motional. All of our third party job postings link back to our motional.com/careers page. Need assistance? If you have questions or want to report suspicious activity, send us a direct message - we’re here to help.