Software Engineer - Motion Planning (Fallback Stack) at Appliedintuition

Appliedintuition

Sunnyvale, California, United States·2d ago

Mid LevelFull-timeRustC++AWSGitAIML

Salary Range

$102,000 - $138,000 /year

Estimated

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About the Role

We are looking for a Motion Planning Engineer to join the Fallback Stack team at Applied Intuition. This role involves designing and implementing deterministic, safety-critical planning systems for autonomous vehicles, ensuring safe behavior when autonomy degrades or operates under uncertainty.

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

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
✓Strong systems thinking and cross-functional collaboration skills