Senior Software Engineer, Behavior Prediction Planning

About the role

The Senior Software Engineer will work on improving behavior prediction for autonomous driving, focusing on how the company's autonomy system predicts the behavior, intent, and future motion of other road users. This role involves working closely with Planning and Machine Learning (ML) engineers to enhance prediction quality, integrate learned models, evaluate prediction outcomes, and refine interfaces between prediction and planning systems.

Responsibilities

• Own prediction improvements within the Planning team.
• Advance prediction models and collaborate with ML teams on learned prediction models, model outputs, uncertainty, and failure modes.
• Improve prediction-planning interfaces, including confidence, uncertainty, intent representation, and fallback behavior.
• Collaborate on projects that improve planning behavior in scenarios where actor intent is uncertain or changing.
• Define metrics and evaluation frameworks for prediction quality as it relates to planning behavior.
• Analyze prediction-related planning failures using logs, simulation, metrics, and scenario-based evaluation.
• Lead technical projects and mentor junior engineers.

Requirements

• Strong experience with behavior prediction, trajectory prediction, actor intent modeling, or related autonomous vehicle prediction problems.
• Strong software engineering skills with proficiency in C++.
• Python proficiency is a plus.
• Experience working with Planning Systems and understanding of how Prediction impacts planning, safety, comfort, and system behavior.
• Ability to analyze complex autonomy failures using logs, metrics, and simulation.
• Strong collaboration skills across Perception, Planning, ML, Simulation, and Systems teams.
• Strong system-level judgment around prediction uncertainty, safety, and deployment and ability to reason across heuristic, learned, and hybrid prediction approaches.

Qualifications

• Competitive compensation package including equity and annual bonuses.
• Excellent Medical, Dental, and Vision plans through Kaiser Permanente, Cigna, and MetLife (including a medical plan with infertility benefits).
• MetLife Legal Services, Identity & Fraud Protection, Hospital Indemnity Insurance, Accident Insurance, & Critical Illness Insurance.
• Flexible PTO, 10 paid holidays, and generous parental leave policies.
• Office perks: dog-friendly, free catered lunch, a fully stocked kitchen, and free EV charging.
• Wellbeing Benefits - Headspace through Cigna, Calm through Kaiser, One Medical, Gympass, Spring Health through Cigna, Rula (mental health navigation).
• Fidelity 401(k) and various incentive programs (referral bonuses, patent bonuses, etc.).

Skills

• Strong experience with behavior prediction, trajectory prediction, actor intent modeling, or related autonomous vehicle prediction problems.
• Strong software engineering skills with proficiency in C++.
• Python proficiency is a plus.
• Experience working with Planning Systems and understanding of how Prediction impacts planning, safety, comfort, and system behavior.
• Ability to analyze complex autonomy failures using logs, metrics, and simulation.
• Strong collaboration skills across Perception, Planning, ML, Simulation, and Systems teams.
• Strong system-level judgment around prediction uncertainty, safety, and deployment and ability to reason across heuristic, learned, and hybrid prediction approaches.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package including equity and annual bonuses.
• Excellent Medical, Dental, and Vision plans through Kaiser Permanente, Cigna, and MetLife (including a medical plan with infertility benefits).
• MetLife Legal Services, Identity & Fraud Protection, Hospital Indemnity Insurance, Accident Insurance, & Critical Illness Insurance.
• Flexible PTO, 10 paid holidays, and generous parental leave policies.
• Office perks: dog-friendly, free catered lunch, a fully stocked kitchen, and free EV charging.
• Wellbeing Benefits - Headspace through Cigna, Calm through Kaiser, One Medical, Gympass, Spring Health through Cigna, Rula (mental health navigation).
• Fidelity 401(k) and various incentive programs (referral bonuses, patent bonuses, etc.).

Pay

California Pay Range: $200,000 USD - $225,000 USD

Schedule

Full-time