Software Engineer - Mission Planning
Software Engineer - Mission Planning
Posted on :
15-03-2025
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Monthly Salary
$ 169000 - 256000
Vacancy
1 Vacancy
Posted on :
15-03-2025
Job Description
The Mission Planner team at Zoox is responsible for creating highlevel routes for our autonomous vehicles to transport passengers to their destinations. You will work closely with our Cloud Services team to facilitate pickup and dropoff requests along with live traffic data among other inputs. You will also integrate closely with the decisionmaking and trajectory planning and controls teams to allow dynamic planning. This team will enable the core ability for our vehicles to choose the best routes through cities and adapt in realtime.
We are seeking an engineer who is passionate about tackling the complexities of mission planning in dynamic cities. You should be driven to contribute innovative solutions to architecture and design and take responsibility for significant software components. If you like to work close to the robot platform and enjoy experiencing your developed software in the robot we would like to hear from you.
In this role you will:
- Develop mission planner algorithms including graph search and integration with behavioral planning
- Integrate and test your developed applications in the robot learn and make improvements.
- Work collaboratively with passionate team members to support the integration of software components from all teams throughout Zoox.
- Set the short and long term technical direction for the team and collaborate on the broader companywide directions
- Coordinate crossfunctional initiatives with other teams across Mission Planning Behavioral Planning and Cloud Services.
Qualifications
- BS/MS in Computer Science or a related field
- Programming skills in C
- Understanding and experience with a variety of graph search techniques (A* D* Dijkstra
- Demonstrated ability to write code for a shipped product (commercial robotics drones consumer devices automotive)
- Ability to work on multiple layers of the autonomous driving compute stack
- at least 8 years of industry experience
Bonus Qualifications
- PhD in computer science or related field
- Experience with autonomous robots
Compensation
There are three major components to compensation for this position: salary Amazon Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) and Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights. The salary will range from$169000 to $256000. A signon bonus may be part of a compensation package. Compensation will vary based on geographic location jobrelated knowledge skills and experience.
Zoox also offers a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (e.g. sick leave vacation bereavement) unpaid time off Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights Amazon RSUs health insurance longterm care insurance longterm and shortterm disability insurance and life insurance.
About Zoox
Zoox is developing the first groundup fully autonomous vehicle fleet and the supporting ecosystem required to bring this technology to market. Sitting at the intersection of robotics machine learning and design Zoox aims to provide the next generation of mobilityasaservice in urban environments. Were looking for top talent that shares our passion and wants to be part of a fastmoving and highly executionoriented team.
Accommodations
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