Software Engineer - Trajectory Optimization

Overland AI•Seattle, WA

10d•$160,000 - $230,000•Onsite

About The Position

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.

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++.

Nice To Haves

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, UWVs) – UGVs preferred.
Experience with / understanding of the differences between GPU and CPU programming paradigms.

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.