Robot Motion Planning - Software Engineer

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Austin, TX
In-Office
Mid level
Information Technology • Robotics
Let us do the driving
The Role
Develop motion planning algorithms for autonomous robots, ensuring safety, smoothness, and reliability in navigation. Collaborate with various teams for improvement and evaluation.
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About the Team

AVRIDE is an autonomous driving company with the mission to make transportation safer and more efficient through cutting-edge technology. We hold a unique position in the market, developing self-driving taxis and delivery robots. Our delivery robot division already has production in the US and Japan. Our compact team consists of highly talented engineers with extensive expertise. Joining us means diving into a startup atmosphere and making a significant impact on the company's results and the autonomous industry as a whole.

About the Role

We are seeking a Software Engineer to join our robot motion planning team. In this role, you will be responsible for developing real-time planning algorithms for outdoor delivery robot. Also you will validate and evaluate the quality of your solution through offline simulations and live-ride testing, ensuring robust performance in the complex urban environments of large cities.

What You'll Do
  • Develop planning algorithms that ensures safe, smooth, and predictable movement of the robot for other agents. This includes incorporating as social aspects such as merging, negotiating narrow spaces and handling noisy, uncertain, and incomplete perception data.
  • Frame open real-world problems into well-defined engineering tasks. Develop tools, algorithms and metrics to address these challenges, including improving our simulation framework.
  • Continuously evaluate and refine the development pipeline using quantitative metrics to improve performance, reliability, and maintainability.
  • Collaborate with planning, simulation, and perception teams to integrate your models into the full robot autonomy stack.
What You'll Need
  • 3+ years software engineering experience programming in C++
  • Strong modern C++ skills and a solid understanding of high-performance code design.
  • Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams.
Nice to Have
  • Experience solving motion-planning or related robotics problems.
  • Experience with spatial geometry algorithms or computational geometry.
  • Familiarity with ML-based planning or control systems.

Candidates are required to be authorized to work in the U.S. The employer is not offering relocation sponsorship, and remote work options are not available.

Top Skills

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C++
Python
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The Company
HQ: Austin, TX
236 Employees
Year Founded: 2020

What We Do

Avride is a leading developer in the autonomous vehicle and delivery robot industry.

Our dynamic team, composed of a few hundred engineers develops and operates autonomous cars and delivery robots across the globe, shaping the future of mobility and logistics.

At Avride, we are committed to making the roads safer and more accessible for everyone. At the core of our philosophy is the belief in the transformative power of technology. Every product we develop, every test we conduct, and every service we launch is anchored in our vision of creating a safer and more sustainable world with help of cutting-edge technologies and breakthrough solutions

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