Senior Software Engineer - Planning

Applied Industrial Technologies
Tokyo
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["C++","Real-time systems","Motion planning","Trajectory generation","Simulation","Large-scale data analysis"]

Design and ship deterministic, safety-critical planning systems for autonomous vehicles, focusing on classical motion planning and large-scale evaluation. Build and evaluate planners that perform under degraded perception and faults, collaborate across behavior, perception, controls, safety, and remote assistance teams, and contribute to a reusable fallback platform used across autonomy programs.

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Applied Industrial Technologies
Applied Industrial Technologies
2 months ago

Senior Software Engineer - Planning

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Job Summary

Design and ship deterministic, safety-critical planning systems for autonomous vehicles, focusing on classical motion planning and large-scale evaluation. Build and evaluate planners that perform under degraded perception and faults, collaborate across behavior, perception, controls, safety, and remote assistance teams, and contribute to a reusable fallback platform used across autonomy programs.
Location: Tokyo
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.
  • •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.

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 vehiclesRoboticsSoftware engineering
Skills:C++Real-time systemsMotion planningTrajectory generationSimulationLarge-scale data analysis
Tech Stack:C++Real-time systemsMotion planningTrajectory generationSimulationData-driven evaluation

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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