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Staff Planner SW Quality Architect

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Job type
Full-time
Work mode
Hybrid
Level
Staff
Department
Software Development
Experience
6+ years experience
Posted
Aug 27, 2026

About the role

You will...

  • Lead the SW Quality of our Planner Architecture, focusing on building robust fault-tolerance systems to resolve critical downstream/upstream performance bottlenecks and ensure continuous, safe vehicle operation.
  • Act as a critical technical bridge and enabler between the Motion Planning and the Onboard SW Teams, driving overall SW quality improvement and reliability.
  • Design and develop motion planning software and algorithms, building the brain which orchestrates decision making in dynamic, uncertain and interactive traffic scenarios.
  • Be part of a team of multidisciplinary Engineers and Research Scientists using an AI-first approach to enable safe self-driving at scale.
  • Manage the experimentation pipeline for research and data generation.

Qualifications:

  • MS/PhD or Bachelor degree with a minimum of 6 years of industry experience in Computer Science, Robotics and/or similar technical field(s) of study.
  • Experience owning software on a shipped product with reliability requirements.
  • Strong grasp of software engineering principles (i.e. code review, unit testing, scalability, maintainability, SW architecture, full lifecycle).
  • Experience in planning/decision making approaches (e.g., optimal control, optimization based approaches, search methods, probabilistic decision making).
  • Production-quality coding skill in Python or C++.
  • Open-minded and collaborative team player with the willingness to help others.
  • Able to maintain progress towards long-term goals while working on short-term problems.
  • Passionate about self-driving technologies, solving hard problems, and creating innovative solutions.