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Senior Software Development Engineer, Motion Planning - Autonomous Vehicles

US, CA, Santa ClaraFull-time$184k–$288k2026-11-09 → 2026-11-10

Core

Develop key motion planning features for NVIDIA's autonomous driving platform, focusing on trajectory planning and vehicle behavior modeling.

Role type

Senior Software Development Engineer (Motion Planning)

Builds

Production-ready motion planning software for L2, L3, and L4 autonomous vehicles

Domain

Autonomous Driving / Robotics

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

C++ development, applied mathematics (linear algebra, differential equations, convex optimization), optimal control formulation, optimization solver performance tuning

Preferred skills

Autonomous driving industry experience, constrained optimization-based trajectory generation, lattice-based planners, hybrid A*, D*, RRTs

Responsibilities

Lead feature lifecycle from design to deployment, model vehicle behaviors as optimal-control problems, integrate perception and prediction data, improve optimization solver performance

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC