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Staff Software Engineer, Behavior Planning

Mountain View, CA💼 Full-time💰 $240,000–$240,000🗓 2026-07-02 → 2026-07-31

Core

Design, implement, and improve behavior planning and motion planning features for autonomous trucking systems to ensure safe, comfortable, and effective driving decisions.

Role type

Staff Software Engineer (Autonomous Driving Planning)

Builds

Production behavior and motion planning software for autonomous semi-trucks and defense applications

Domain

Autonomous ground transportation / Robotics

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Behavior planning, motion planning, decision-making, C++ software engineering, debugging complex autonomy systems, system-level judgment for safety and deployment

Preferred skills

Experience in industrial/near-production autonomy environments, collaboration across autonomy stack (Prediction, Controls, Perception, ML)

Technologies

C++

Responsibilities

Design and implement planning features, own projects from definition to deployment, debug autonomy using logs/simulation/metrics, define success metrics and validation plans, mentor junior and senior engineers

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with mentorship

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