Senior Engineer, Autonomy Foundations

Motional•San Francisco, CA

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to design and develop onboard and offboard pipelines for localization, mapping and related software for our autonomous driving systems. This is a critical, high-impact role on our Localization team, which is central to the safety and functionality of our autonomous driving stack. You will be responsible for designing, developing, and deploying robust, real-time C++ software for both onboard and offboard localization, mapping and related pipelines. Additionally, you will contribute to the design, validation, and productionalization of our Collision Detection System. The onboard systems must be highly optimized to run in real time; the offboard pipelines are crucial for the validation of the onboard performance. Your work will be at the heart of the entire AV system.

Requirements

Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field
5+ years of production focused C++ software development experience
Experience in designing data pipelines
Ability to communicate across multiple teams, researchers and engineers

Nice To Haves

Good understanding of localization, SLAM and optimization
Experience with multi object tracking, Kalman filters, and factor graphs.
Familiarity with Lidar, IMU, camera, and odometry sensors
Strong background in linear algebra
Masters/Phd in related fields

Responsibilities

Drive the end-to-end design, implementation, and testing of high-performance C++ software for our onboard and offboard localization and localization-related pipelines.
Conduct code reviews and guide junior team members on code quality, correctness and efficiency
Work with the mapping team to establish the API for localization-mapping interaction
Provide technical leadership across the organization in the areas of code quality and design
Collaborate with the team of algorithm experts within perception, motion planning and controls