Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Motion Planning

In our Motion Planning team, you'll apply your passion for robotics and software development for production-ready autonomous vehicles. In this role, you'll perform groundbreaking research, conduct design processes, and implement performance-critical algorithms to generate safe, comfortable, and intuitive autonomous vehicle behaviors across Motional’s fleet of robotaxis.

Technical Scope:

• Develop state-of-the-art motion planning algorithms to ensure the vehicle autonomously navigates safely and smoothly. 
• Design and build robust and scalable software that enables rapid exploration and evaluation of different motion planning approaches and algorithms. 
• Collaborate with upstream decision/behavior planning, prediction, and downstream motion tracking algorithms.
• Leverage modern development toolchains to enable rapid development cycles, including testing, simulation, and continuous integration. 

Role responsibilities:

• As a staff engineer, you will be expected to define and execute multi-quarter technical roadmaps and OKRs that span across multiple sub-systems and influence partner teams' technical directions
• Lead technical discussions and establish team-level processes for system-level design, review, and the implementation of advanced fe