Hybrid Software Engineer – Trajectory Generation

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About the role

  • Software Engineer developing trajectory generation algorithms for enhancing autonomous vehicle driving behaviors. Focused on improving safety and comfort in complex driving environments through software implementation.

Responsibilities

  • Design trajectory generation algorithms and implement them in high-quality software to continuously improve the capability of our autonomous driving system and enhance the safety and comfort of our driving behavior on public roads.
  • Use our extensive backend tooling to test and validate your algorithms and software across many different driving situations, and develop metrics and pipelines to further our ability to test/measure the algorithms’ performance.
  • Participate in or lead cross-functional projects to deliver mission-critical features to expand our autonomous driving capabilities.
  • Participate in on-vehicle drive reviews to gather actionable feedback on driving performance, and use this knowledge to help the team learn and make continuous improvements.
  • Conduct literature review and participate in study groups to stay current with the advancements in the fields of Motion Planning, Autonomous Driving, and Robotics in general.

Requirements

  • Master's degree in Computer Science, Robotics, or related fields
  • Fluency in C++ with experience shipping productionized software
  • Proven experience in developing trajectory optimization algorithms and real-time motion planning software
  • Deep knowledge about numerical constrained optimization methods
  • Experience with geometric, sampling, and search-based planning algorithms (Bonus Qualification)
  • Experience with machine learning-based motion planning (Bonus Qualification)
  • Experience with behavior planning, discrete decision making, tree search, and POMDP (Bonus Qualification)

Benefits

  • paid time off (e.g. sick leave, vacation, bereavement)
  • unpaid time off
  • Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights
  • Amazon RSUs
  • health insurance
  • long-term care insurance
  • long-term and short-term disability insurance
  • life insurance

Job title

Software Engineer – Trajectory Generation

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

$151,000 - $270,000 per year

Degree requirement

Postgraduate Degree

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