Zoox
Senior/Staff Software Engineer - Behavior Capabilities
Foster City, CA · On-site · Senior
- Discipline
- Software
- Industry
- Automotive
Spec sheet
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Software
Senior/Staff Software Engineer focused on behavior and planning algorithms for autonomous driving. Works within the Fail Operational Planning group to advance behavioral and motion planning, collaborating across planner, perception, prediction, and hardware teams to maintain vehicle uptime and safe operation in complex scenarios.
Required
- behavioral planning
- motion planning
- algorithm development
- driving stack understanding
- holistic product-focused development
- collaboration across teams
- ownership of projects
Preferred
- robotics
- planning algorithms
- perception coupling
- hardware collaboration
- Fail Operational Planning
- trajectory optimization
Employer description
The Behavior Capabilities opportunity falls within the Fail Operational Planning team at Zoox. This team works to ensure that the robot continues to operate effectively, even in the presence of minor compartmentalized failures or degraded capabilities. The focus of the team includes developing behavioral and motion planning algorithms to improve trip progress, vehicle uptime metrics, and correspondingly a better customer experience. This is a cutting-edge problem which requires teamwork and collaboration across a diverse group of experts including Planner, Perception, Prediction, Hardware, and more.
On this team, you will contribute to the next generation of algorithmic advancements to expand our robot’s ability to drive in some of the most complex scenarios. We are looking for an engineer who is excited to understand the interdependencies within the driving stack and takes ownership of their projects and has a holistic product focused approach towards development.
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