Zoox
Senior / Staff Software Engineer - Motion Planning
Foster City, CA · On-site · Senior
- Discipline
- Software
- Industry
- Automotive
Spec sheet
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Software
Zoox is seeking a Senior/Staff Software Engineer to advance motion planning algorithms for autonomous driving, collaborating across Planner, Perception, Prediction, and Operations to enable safe, scalable driving on complex urban roads. The role emphasizes principled testing in simulation, closed-course testing, and on-road validation with safety drivers.
8+ years
Required
- motion planning
- autonomous vehicles
- planning algorithms
- robotics software
- simulation testing
- on-road testing
- team collaboration
- safety-driven development
Preferred
- C++
- ROS
- Factored planning
- path planning
- trajectory optimization
- sensor fusion
- real-time systems
Employer description
On the Motion Planning team at Zoox, you’ll be dedicated to improving the driving behaviors of the robot on public roads. The Planner’s job is to figure out where the robot is going and how to get there safely in situations as complex as those found in Downtown San Francisco or on the Las Vegas Strip.
This is a cutting-edge problem, which requires teamwork and collaboration across a broad set of experts spanning Planner, Perception, Prediction, Operations, and more. Together, you will create the next generation of algorithmic improvements to expand our robot’s ability to drive in some of the most complex situations found on public roads.
Safety is foundational at Zoox, so you will take a measured approach – develop a principled modification to the Planner, test in simulation and on closed courses, and team up with our safety drivers for on-road testing.
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