Senior Engineer, Motion Planning and Controls, Autonomous Driving
Lucid Motors20 days ago
Southfield, MI, USASenior
Responsibilities
- Develop trajectory optimization, constraint-aware optimization, path smoothing, and local-planning algorithms for low-speed autonomy and parking scenarios.
- Refactor and scale the planning-stack architecture and optimize CPU usage while exploring parallel and GPU acceleration.
- Investigate real-world planning issues such as curvature discontinuities, velocity/trajectory mismatches, and edge-case steering behavior.
- Validate solutions using simulation, vehicle logs, multi-scenario testing, and benchmarking.
- Evaluate and prototype learned models, barrier functions, and ML-based planning approaches for production use.
- Support production integration, technical discussions, documentation, knowledge transfer, and Jira-based work tracking.
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/C++ programming skills and understanding of software engineering design principles and best practices.
- Experience delivering ADAS or autonomous-driving features through requirements analysis, architecture and design, implementation, unit testing, feature tuning, SIL/HIL validation, and in-vehicle deployment.
- Hands-on experience integrating software on embedded platforms such as NVIDIA Xavier/Orin or Infineon Aurix.
- Ability to build reliable production-grade systems, large-scale architectures, evaluation pipelines, and performance-optimized models.
- Preferred qualifications include ML-based planning, GPU or parallel computing for planning, and production deployment 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 an equity program and/or discretionary annual cash incentive program.
- The position is based in Southfield, Michigan and requires employees to work onsite five days per week.
Tech Stack
CC++
Categories
Robotics
About Lucid Motors
We launched Lucid in 2016 to build the world’s best cars and accelerate the shift to clean energy. Our vehicles deliver best-in-class performance *and* efficiency. Equally important, we’re building a world-class team: From our state-of-the-art factory in Arizona to our global headquarters in California’s Silicon Valley, we’re recruiting high-performing people who want to help decarbonize Earth. Join us!