Base Salary
$141k - $282k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and implement high-level motion planning logic for lane changes, merges, yields, and interactions with other agents.
- Develop and optimize motion planning algorithms integrating geometric path reasoning and velocity reasoning into cohesive trajectories.
- Architect and enhance systems for generating geometrically feasible and compliant paths.
- Architect and refine systems for generating context-aware, comfortable, and safe velocity profiles.
- Model complex driving scenarios and agent interactions for the behavioral planner’s world model.
- Design trajectory-ranking costs that balance ETA, comfort, and safety.
- Analyze, test, debug, and investigate root causes of system performance issues across varied scenarios.
- Collaborate with Prediction, Perception, and Control teams to connect environmental understanding with physical vehicle motion.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Robotics, or a related field.
- Experience in autonomous systems, robotics, or automotive software development.
- Strong proficiency in C++ for complex, real-time algorithms.
- Understanding of robotics fundamentals, decision-making, motion planning, control theory, trajectory ranking, search, and optimization algorithms.
- Experience with motion planning, trajectory optimization, world environment reasoning, trajectory ranking, or cost design.
- Preferred: PhD or internship experience related to robotics planning system design.
- Preferred: knowledge of vehicle dynamics and longitudinal and lateral control systems.
- Preferred: understanding of machine learning principles, reinforcement learning, and related algorithms.
Benefits
- Bonus, equity, and benefits are provided in addition to base salary.
Tech Stack
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About DiDi
DiDi Global Inc. is a leading mobility technology platform. It offers a wide range of app-based services across Asia Pacific, Latin America, and other global markets, including ride hailing, taxi hailing, designated driving, hitch and other forms of shared mobility as well as certain energy and vehicle services, food delivery, and intra-city freight services. DiDi provides car owners, drivers, and delivery partners with flexible work and income opportunities. It is committed to collaborating with policymakers, the taxi industry, the automobile industry, and the communities to solve the world’s transportation, environmental, and employment challenges through the use of AI technology and localized smart transportation innovations. DiDi strives to create better life experiences and greater social value, by building a safe, inclusive, and sustainable transportation and local services ecosystem for cities of the future.