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Avride · 3 weeks ago

Robot Motion Planning - Software Engineer

Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

Full-time

Onsite

Mid Level

3+ years exp

Avride is an autonomous driving company focused on enhancing transportation safety and efficiency through innovative technology. The Software Engineer will develop real-time planning algorithms for outdoor delivery robots and evaluate their performance in urban environments.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)AutomotiveAutonomous VehiclesRobotics

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

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

Qualification

C++High-performance code designMotion-planning experienceSpatial geometry algorithmsML-based planningCross-functional collaboration

Required

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

Preferred

Experience solving motion-planning or related robotics problems

Experience with spatial geometry algorithms or computational geometry

Familiarity with ML-based planning or control systems

Company

Avride

Avride is a developer and operator of autonomous vehicles and delivery robots.

Founded in 2017

Austin, Texas, USA

201-500 employees

https://www.avride.ai

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