Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Pose, Localization & Calibration, Autonomy

Rivian • Palo Alto, CA

1d • $265,000 - $331,300

About The Position

Our Pose Team is a diverse group of algorithm developers / software engineers focused on delivering mapping, localization, and calibration solutions hosted on the vehicle and in the Cloud. Pose is a core capability of the autonomy stack delivering products to Perception, Prediction, Planning, Control, and others. As a Sr. Software Engineer on the Pose team, you will work on a wide variety of localization and calibration problems including real-time algorithm development on the vehicle.

Requirements

• M.S. or Ph.D. in Aerospace, Electrical, or Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science or a related field.
• 7+ years of robotics, AV (Autonomous Vehicle), or other real-time, safety-critical experience.
• Research and development experience in one or more of the following areas: Stochastic estimation/state estimation/Kalman filtering SLAM / Factor Graphs Sensor fusion Sensor calibration Autonomous Vehicles/ADAS
• Strong C/C++ programming skills and experience
• Ability to work in a fast-paced development environment
• Good team player with great communication skills
• Passionately motivated to take ideas from R&D phase to a product

Nice To Haves

• Sensor fusion / SLAM with IMU and/or Odometry
• Non-linear optimization, batch estimation, factor graphs, ground truth algorithms
• Prototyping real-time applications
• Adapting algorithms for real world use cases, considering corner cases, using imperfect data
• Embedded software development and optimization experience
• Software development for safety critical systems (ISO 26262)
• Experience with IMU, camera, LiDAR, radar, computer vision

Responsibilities

• Technical leadership: Define, review, and refactor the architecture, algorithms, and frameworks for solving pose, calibration, and SLAM problems. The problems we work on involve processing and fusing input data from multiple sensors including GNSS, IMU, wheel / radar / visual / lidar odometry to produce state-of-the-art global and relative localization systems. We also work on the calibration of sensors going into these algorithms.
• Implementation leadership: Implement these algorithms and frameworks in C++. Mentor junior engineers involved in the implementation, and help drive our standards for high-quality, high-performance, scalable autonomy software.
• Integrating these algorithms into our autonomous vehicle architecture, including migrating these algorithms to real-time embedded systems, and integrity monitoring.
• Evaluation: help define and develop pipelines to evaluate and iterate on our algorithms at scale.
• Our team is responsible for interfacing directly with suppliers, interfacing with our software, hardware, and vehicle design teams, developing safety-critical localization algorithms for any environment.

Benefits

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time employees, their spouse or domestic partner, and children up to age 26, including but not limited to paid vacation, paid sick leave, and a competitive portfolio of insurance benefits including life, medical, dental, vision, short-term disability insurance, and long-term disability insurance to eligible employees.
• You may also have the opportunity to participate in Rivian’s 401(k) Plan and Employee Stock Purchase Program if you meet certain eligibility requirements.
• Full-time employee coverage is effective on their first day of employment.
• Part-time employee coverage is effective the first of the month following 90 days of employment.
• More information about benefits is available at rivianbenefits.com.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree