Software Engineer - Mission Planning
Foster City, CAHybridFull-time
AI Summary
Develops mission planning algorithms and graph search techniques for autonomous vehicles, integrating with behavioral planning and cloud services to enable real-time route adaptation in dynamic cities.
About this role
The Mission Planner team at Zoox is responsible for creating high-level routes for our autonomous vehicles to transport passengers to their destinations. You will work closely with our Cloud Services team to facilitate pick-up and drop-off requests, along with live traffic data among other inputs. You will also integrate closely with the decision-making and trajectory planning and controls teams to allow dynamic planning. This team will enable the core ability for our vehicles to choose the best routes through cities and adapt in real-time.
We are seeking an engineer who is passionate about tackling the complexities of mission planning in dynamic cities. You should be driven to contribute innovative solutions to architecture and design and take responsibility for significant software components. If you like to work close to the robot platform and enjoy experiencing your developed software in the robot, we would like to hear from you.
In this role, you will:
Qualifications
Bonus Qualifications
Skills
A*Autonomous RobotsBehavioral PlanningC++Cloud ServicesD*DijkstraGraph SearchMarkov Decision ProcessesSequential Decision-makingTrajectory Planning
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