Software Engineer Behaviors & Planning

We are seeking a Software Engineer to join the team that decides where our autonomous ground vehicles go and how they get there in off-road terrain with degraded GPS and intermittent comms. Youll work alongside experienced planning optimization and systems engineers. Youll ship real code to real vehicles early and grow into co-owning a core part of the stack within your first 612 months.

You dont need years of production experience. You do need strong fundamentals curiosity and the drive to own your work all the way to the field.

Focus areas. Youll start in one of these matched to your interests and our needs:

• Systems: architecture performance tooling and reliability of the planning stack.
• Planning: navigation and decision-making under uncertainty including learned and classical approaches.
• Trajectory Optimization: MPC/MPPI vehicle modeling and real-time optimization.

• Implement test and improve features in the behaviors and planning stack with C and Python in a shared codebase.
• Use our off-road driving data to evaluate changes and catch regressions.
• Debug issues from logs simulation and field data with mentorship along the way.
• Join field tests and see your code run on vehicles.
• Take part in design discussions and code reviews both giving and receiving feedback.

• BS or MS in Computer Science Robotics Engineering or a related field OR equivalent experience.
• • PhD graduates are welcome.
• 13 years of professional experience. Internships research and substantial projects all count.
• Solid programming aptitude in C or Python and desire to become excellent in both.
• Strong CS fundamentals: data structures algorithms and complexity.
• Enthusiasm to support periodic field testing.

Desired Experience & Qualifications

• PhD in a relevant field.
• Experience with both learned (e.g. learned costmaps imitation/RL) and classical (search sampling optimization) planning.
• Experience integrating prior or opportunistic map data with onboard perception.
• Off-road UGV and/or on-road AV planning experience. UGV experience is a plus not a requirement.
• Experience in DDIL environments.

Location:

The location for this position will be onsite in Seattle WA

Compensation And Benefits

Pay range: $160000 - $190000 annually

Actual level and base salary will bedeterminedon a case-by-case basis and may vary based on the following considerations: job-related knowledge and skills education and experience.

Overland AI believes in creating a work environment that you look forward to embracing every day.

Benefits include:

• Equity Compensation
• Best-in-class healthcare dental and vision plans
• Flexible PTO
• 401(k) with company match
• Paid parental leave
• Monthly wellness stipend
• One-time workplace & productivity reimbursement

Overland AI is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race color religion creed sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression national origin age marital status disability genetic information protected veteran or military status or any other status protected by applicable law.

This position may involve access to export-controlled technology. Employment is contingent on the ability to comply with U.S. export control laws.

Overland AI provides reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans during the application process. Please contact to request an accommodation.