Motional is looking to solve the problem of creating safe, reliable, and accessible autonomous vehicles by developing production-ready autonomous vehicles with safe, comfortable, and intuitive routes and motions.
Requirements
- Proven impact and expertise in the robotics / autonomous vehicle field.
- 2+ years of research experience in robotics / motion planning
- 2+ years of C++ software development
- Past experience taking projects from problem formulation through implementation and deployment
Responsibilities
- Develop a variety of algorithms on planning for autonomous driving, including but not limited to search-based methods, sampling-based methods, optimization-based methods, linear-temporal logic, and decision making under uncertainty.
- Integrate and evaluate combinations of motion planning and prediction algorithms
- Design and build robust and scalable codebase that enables rapid exploration and evaluation of different motion planning approaches and algorithms.
- Interface with perception and prediction components upstream and trajectory optimization and tracking & control components downstream
- Participate in code reviews and mentoring sessions with senior team members
- Develop a culture of product focused engineering, research, and development
Other
- Bachelor's required, Masters or PhD degree preferred in Robotics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field
- Thirst for knowledge and continuous innovation
- Must be authorized to work in the US
- Motional AD Inc. is an EOE and participates in E-Verify to verify identity and employment eligibility
