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Motional · 2 weeks ago

Senior Motion Planning Engineer, Dev Tooling

Motional is a driverless technology company making autonomous vehicles a safe, reliable, and accessible reality. They are seeking a Senior Motion Planning Engineer to develop and implement tooling and testing solutions for the Motion Planner stack, ensuring high-quality production-ready code and fostering collaboration with users to address their needs.

AutomotiveAutonomous VehiclesFleet ManagementInformation TechnologySoftware
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Responsibilities

Develop and implement robust tooling and testing solutions for the Motion Planner stack, ensuring code is production ready, well documented and thoroughly tested
Continuously improve the system's design to promote modularity and expandability, making it easier to adapt and extend in the future
Work closely with users to understand their requirements, identify any pain points, and deliver impactful solutions
Provide ongoing support for issues reported by users. Assess and prioritize the criticality of these issues, distinguishing between blocking problems and desirable feature requests
Take ownership of specific components and drive their technical roadmap, ensuring alignment with overall project goals
Support team members to improve development practices, merge request reviews, debugging, and ideation sessions

Qualification

C++ 17+Debugging with gdbMulti-threading in C++Bazel build systemSoftware engineering foundationsDesign patternsAlgorithmsData structuresTestingPythonJavascript

Required

Bachelor's, Masters, or PhD degree preferred in Robotics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field
5+ years of software development in modern C++ (C++17 or higher) including:
C++ Standard library
Modern features of language (C++17 or higher)
Build systems (Bazel framework is a plus)
Debugging - especially with gdb
Solid software engineering foundations, design patterns, algorithms and data structures
Experience with multi-threading in C++
Design patterns
Algorithms and data structures
Multi-threaded applications
Testing

Preferred

Experience and passion for building testing and debugging tools
Bazel build system
Knowledge of Python or Javascript

Benefits

Medical
Dental
Vision
401k with a company match
Health saving accounts
Life insurance
Pet insurance

Company

Motional

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Motional offers an autonomous driving platform for robotaxi providers, fleet operators, and automotive manufacturers.

H1B Sponsorship

Motional has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (56)
2024 (111)
2023 (57)
2022 (110)
2021 (100)
2020 (7)

Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage
Total Funding
unknown
2024-05-03Acquired
2024-03-15Seed

Leadership Team

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Laura Major
President and CEO
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Balajee Kannan
Vice President, Autonomy
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