Software Engineer - Trajectory Optimization
About the role
We are seeking a Software Engineer – Trajectory Optimization to design and implement planning algorithms in complex off-road and on-road terrain using local sensing for unmanned ground vehicles. These systems must perform in punishing terrain: understanding how to balance fidelity and optimality against computational efficiency and robustness is a must for high-speed movement. The ideal candidate has experience with model predictive control, system identification, and a deep intuition for how physical platforms interact with the world when tires meet dirt.
Location: This location for this position will be onsite in Seattle, WA
Responsibilities
- Design and implement local trajectory optimization algorithms for autonomous ground vehicles.
- Support rapid integration and adjustment of planning algorithms for a wide variety of vehicles and sensing modalities.
- Work closely with other teams on software development of a shared codebase.
- Leverage a significant corpus of offroad driving data to improve and backstop performance via regression and progression testing.
- Participate in field tests and demonstrations / events for product testing and evaluation.
Requirements
Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related discipline and 5+ years of relevant experience; OR 3+ years of relevant professional experience with an advanced degree. Development experience developing production grade software in Python or C++.
Qualifications
- MS degree or PhD preferred.
- Experience as a software engineer working on motion planning.
- Experience working with safety critical systems and certification.
- Experience working with autonomous robotic systems (e.g. UAVs, U