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Senior Machine Learning Engineer, End-to-End Planning

Lucid Motors


Job Location:

Newark, DE - USA

Yearly Salary: USD 158400 - 217800
Posted: 25 July 2026 (30+ days ago)
Application Deadline: 14 December 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

About Lucid

At Lucid we are creating exceptional mobility experiences through innovation to drive the world forward. Built on Lucids proprietary technology and software-defined vehicle architecture our award-winning vehicles bring our Compromise Nothing approach to the global automotive market. That means refusing to choose between performance and sustainability design and engineering ambition and Lucid Air and Lucid Gravity we have designed and built vehicles that have redefined their segments combining exceptional range performance design and expansive space in a single experience.

We achieve this through deep vertical integration with design engineering and productionhappening in-houseacross our global offices the world united by a shared commitment to refusing to settle youcanhelpredefinewhatspossible andshape the future of mobility.


Senior Machine Learning Engineer End-to-End Planning

Role:

  • Develop and maintain high-performance low-latency end-to-end planning algorithms that enable vehicles to safely accurately and reliably navigate highway urban and parking scenarios in production autonomous driving applications.
  • Design reusable and optimized behavior and motion planning software architectures for Level 2/3/4 autonomous driving systems.
  • Develop and implement advanced machine learning algorithms for data-driven driving behavior and end-to-end planning.
  • Lead software development by applying full-stack autonomy expertise to design and deploy algorithms in closed-loop pipelines and real-world vehicle systems.
  • Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless robust implementation and deployment of motion planning products for autonomous driving systems.

Required Qualifications:

  • Masters degree or Ph.D. in Computer Science Robotics Machine Learning or a related field.
  • Professional experience implementing reliable production systems involving vision-action models vision-language-action (VLA) models generative models such as diffusion or flow-matching models and autonomous driving performance metrics.
  • Expert-level knowledge of hands-on experience with Python and PyTorch.
  • Solid understanding of state-of-the-art models and approaches in perception prediction and planning for autonomous driving.
  • Strong foundation in physics probability and statistics.
  • Experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools to improve software engineering efficiency code quality and development workflows.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience building and validating real-time autonomous driving or robotics systems including planning and behavior prediction.
  • Proficiency in C with strong software design and engineering skills.
At Lucid we dont just welcome diversity - we celebrate it! Lucid Motors is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race color national or ethnic origin age religion disability sexual orientation gender gender identity and expression marital status and any other characteristic protected under applicable State or Federal laws and regulations.

Required Experience:

Senior IC


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Lucid is the future of sustainable mobility, designing electric cars that further reimagines the driving experience.

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