Senior/Staff Behavior Planning Engineer
Core
Designing and implementing the core behavior planning system for autonomous middle-mile logistics trucks to enable safe, intelligent decision-making in complex real-world scenarios.
Role type
Senior/Staff Behavior Planning Engineer
Builds
Autonomous transportation-as-a-service (ATaaS) solution for B2B supply chain
Domain
Autonomous driving / Robotics / Logistics
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Behavior planning, Behavior trees, Finite state machines, C++, Motion planning interfaces, Real-time safety-critical systems, Simulation and debugging, System architecture
Preferred skills
Diffusion models, Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models
Technologies
C++
Responsibilities
Design and maintain the core behavior planning system; Develop and extend behavior tree architectures for hierarchical decision logic; Collaborate with motion planning, prediction, and control teams; Build and optimize C++-based software infrastructure for simulation and testing; Evaluate planner performance and identify failure modes; Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior team members
Seniority
Senior/Staff, hands-on IC with architectural guidance