Software Engineer - Motion Planning (Fallback Stack)

Applied Industrial Technologies
Sunnyvale
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 151,000 - 240,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Collaboration","Problem-solving"]

Motion Planning Engineer for autonomous vehicles focusing on deterministic, safety-critical planning systems. Design and ship classical or ML motion planners, ensure reliable behavior under degraded perception, optimize planning under uncertainty, and collaborate across behavior prediction, perception, controls, safety, and remote assistance teams to drive a reusable fallback platform.

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Applied Industrial Technologies
Applied Industrial Technologies
5 months ago

Software Engineer - Motion Planning (Fallback Stack)

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Job Summary

Motion Planning Engineer for autonomous vehicles focusing on deterministic, safety-critical planning systems. Design and ship classical or ML motion planners, ensure reliable behavior under degraded perception, optimize planning under uncertainty, and collaborate across behavior prediction, perception, controls, safety, and remote assistance teams to drive a reusable fallback platform.
Location: Sunnyvale
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design and implement classical or ML motion planners for fallback and minimal-risk maneuvers
  • •Build planners that operate reliably under degraded perception, partial observability, and system faults; Define and execute safe, deterministic vehicle motions such as controlled slow-downs, pull-overs, and safe stops
  • •Use large-scale simulation and real-world data to evaluate planner behavior and guide parameter tuning; Develop metrics, analysis tools, and dashboards to understand planner performance at scale
  • •Collaborate closely with behavior prediction, perception, controls, safety, and remote assistance teams
  • •Contribute to a reusable fallback platform used across trucking and other autonomy programs

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 151,000 - 240,000 annually
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionLife InsuranceDisability Insurance401kLearning StipendWellness Stipend

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years of experience in motion planning for autonomous vehicles or robotics
  • •Strong foundation in robotic motion planning algorithms and trajectory generation (optimization-, search-, or rule-based)
  • •Experience building deterministic, safety-critical planning systems
  • •A data-driven mindset for large-scale evaluation, debugging, and tuning of planning behavior
  • •Proficiency in C++ and experience working in real-time systems
Experience:5+ yearsAutonomous vehiclesRoboticsMotion planningAutonomy
Skills:CommunicationCollaborationProblem-solving
Tech Stack:C++Real-time systemsSimulationMLLog analysis

Company Brief

Applied Industrial Technologies
Builds software tools for autonomous vehicle development, including simulation, validation, and data infrastructure for automakers and robotics teams. Also supports defense applications with autonomy-focused testing and deployment platforms.
Industry: Developer Tools
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Headquarters: Mountain View, United States
Founded: 2017
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