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Staff Software Engineer, Mission Planning

Mountain View, CA💼 Full-time💰 $200,000–$200,000🗓 2026-07-06 → 2026-07-31

Core

Design and develop mission planning and prediction systems for driverless operation on public roads, integrating driving logic and ML models to handle complex real-world scenarios.

Role type

Staff Software Engineer (Mission Planning)

Builds

Autonomous trucking software for commercial freight and U.S. Department of Defense applications

Domain

Autonomous ground transportation / Robotics

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

C++, motion planning, trajectory optimization, graph theory, production-level robotics software development, system architecture, technical leadership

Preferred skills

deploying software on driverless autonomous vehicles, improving system performance (latency, throughput, reliability), simulation frameworks, data-driven development workflows, mentoring engineers

Technologies

C++

Responsibilities

Design and develop mission planning and prediction systems; Develop architecture and long-term roadmap; Mentor and provide technical leadership to engineers; Integrate engineered driving logic and machine-learning models; Develop robust models to predict behavior of other actors; Partner cross-functionally with Perception, Controls, Systems, and Simulation teams

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with mentorship

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