Software Engineer - Motion Planning (Fallback Stack)
Applied Intuition7 months ago
Base Salary
$151k - $240k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and implement classical or ML motion planners for fallback and minimal-risk maneuvers.
- Build planners that operate reliably under degraded perception, partial observability, and system faults.
- Define and execute deterministic vehicle motions such as controlled slow-downs, pull-overs, and safe stops.
- Use large-scale simulation and real-world data to evaluate planner behavior and guide parameter tuning.
- Develop metrics, analysis tools, and dashboards to understand planner performance at scale.
- Collaborate with behavior prediction, perception, controls, safety, and remote-assistance teams.
- Contribute to a reusable fallback platform used across trucking and other autonomy programs.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience in motion planning for autonomous vehicles or robotics.
- Strong foundation in robotic motion-planning algorithms and trajectory generation, including optimization-, search-, or rule-based methods.
- Experience building deterministic, safety-critical planning systems.
- Data-driven approach to large-scale evaluation, debugging, and tuning of planning behavior.
- Proficiency in C++ and experience with real-time systems.
- Strong systems thinking and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Experience with minimal-risk maneuvers or emergency-handling behaviors is preferred.
- Familiarity with autonomous-vehicle safety concepts, ODD constraints, or safety-case-driven development is preferred.
- Experience using ML techniques for parameter tuning, calibration, or offline optimization is preferred.
- Experience with degraded sensors, uncertainty, human-in-the-loop systems, simulation frameworks, or large-scale log analysis is preferred.
Benefits
- Primarily in-office work at an Applied Intuition office 5 days per week, with occasional remote-work flexibility.
- Comprehensive health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
- 401(k) retirement benefits with employer match.
- Learning and wellness stipends.
- Paid time off.
- Potential equity in the form of options or restricted stock units.
Tech Stack
Categories
Robotics
About Applied Intuition
Applied Intuition builds software tools, infrastructure, and operating systems for developing, testing, and deploying autonomous and driver-assistance systems across automotive, trucking, defense, construction, mining, and agriculture. It sells enterprise software and services including simulation, sensor data management, HD mapping, and a vehicle OS to OEMs and government customers. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, it counts 18 of the top 20 global automakers and the U.S. military among its users.