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Software Engineer - Planning

Applied Intuition· Engineering
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Sunnyvale, CA$125k - $245kfull-timePosted 10mo ago

About the role

Software engineer specializing in motion planning for autonomous vehicles or mobile robots. Develop high-performance planning modules to generate traversable, kinematically-feasible trajectories for onroad autonomy use cases, with production-ready code, collaboration with customers, and deployment to hardware.

Responsibilities

  • Develop state-of-the-art onroad behavior software and leverage ML components to achieve highway and city driving
  • Design and implement planning modules that can be deployed on onroad vehicles for autonomous navigation
  • Leverage lightweight map data (SD maps) and the outputs of a perception system to determine driving costs to use for planning
  • Deploy your planning modules to production hardware and test on the road
  • Collaborate with customers’ engineers and manage customer relationships

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or related field
  • 3+ years of experience building production software using modern software practices
  • Experience developing planning solutions for autonomous vehicles or other mobile robots
  • Fluency in writing modern, high-performance C++ code
  • Experience shipping code for robotics or autonomous vehicles
  • A passion for tackling challenging planning problems involving a wide array of vehicles
  • Enthusiasm for coming up with practical solutions to cutting-edge challenges in a fast-paced environment, and building towards an end-to-end strategy

Skills

Required:Motion planning for autonomous systemsC++ programming

Benefits

  • base salary, equity, and benefits including health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, 401k with employer match, learning and wellness stipends, and paid time off
Last updated May 26, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Applied Intuition

Building vehicle intelligence | Applied Intuition

Applied Intuition is the vehicle intelligence company with the tools, Vehicle OS, and autonomy stacks for creating safe, AI-powered vehicle experiences.

AIAutonomy stacksSelf-Driving SystemSimulationTesting & ValidationVehicle IntelligenceVehicle OSai-infrastructure-and-development
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