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Staff Software Engineer, Mission Planning

Hybrid Vehicles💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-13 → 2026-09-24

Core

Lead design and development of mission planning, routing, and human-assisted autonomy for driverless commercial trucks on public roads.

Role type

Staff Software Engineer (Autonomous Vehicle Motion Planning)

Builds

Mission planning stack, routing algorithms, and human-assisted autonomy features for driverless semi-trucks.

Domain

Autonomous ground transportation / Commercial trucking / Robotics

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Motion planning, graph theory, distributed computing, modern C++, production-level robotics software development, architecture design, technical leadership

Preferred skills

Mentoring robotics engineers, deploying software on autonomous vehicles, building safety cases, optimizing system performance (latency/throughput), simulation framework development, data-driven decision making

Technologies

C++, Graph Theory, Distributed Computing, Simulation Frameworks

Responsibilities

Lead design and development of mission planning and routing for driverless operation; Develop architecture and long-term roadmap for motion planning; Identify metrics to orient engineering teams toward product excellence; Mentor and provide technical leadership to junior and senior engineers; Integrate onboard and offboard driving logic; Partner cross-functionally to define interfaces and system behavior.

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with significant leadership scope

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