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Zoox · 6 hours ago

Senior/Staff Software Engineer - Simulation Motion Planning

positionFoster City, CA
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
senioritySenior Level, Lead/Staff
money$215K/yr - $305K/yr
date8+ years exp

Zoox is developing the first ground-up, fully autonomous vehicle fleet and the supporting ecosystem required to bring this technology to market. The Senior/Staff Software Engineer in Simulation Motion Planning will be responsible for modeling and simulating human behaviors to enhance the validation of autonomous driving software.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Autonomous VehiclesMachine LearningRoboticsTransportation
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H1B Sponsor Likelynote

Responsibilities

Populate the simulated roads with intelligent participants
Create simulated cars, pedestrians, bicyclists, motorcyclists, etc. to behave realistically by default, and tunable to create a full gamut of traffic/agent behaviors
Push the state of the art in traffic and behavior modeling to capture real-world behaviors as closely as possible
Work closely with various teams — including AI software teams, QA, and Validation Engineers — to push autonomous driving forward

Qualification

C++Motion planningControl systemsMathematics skillsConstrained optimizationState estimationPythonGame developmentTraffic simulationPathfindingRoboticsData scienceMachine learning

Required

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Robotics Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field
PhD or 8+ years of experience in a related field
Fluency in C++
Mathematics skills, including trigonometry, linear algebra, and calculus
Experience with motion planning, control systems, constrained optimization, and state estimation

Preferred

Experience in game development, traffic simulation or pathfinding
Experience in automotive, robotics, data science, or machine learning
Familiarity with Python

Benefits

Paid time off (e.g. sick leave, vacation, bereavement)
Unpaid time off
Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights
Amazon RSUs
Health insurance
Long-term care insurance
Long-term and short-term disability insurance
Life insurance

Company

Zoox

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Zoox is an AI robotics company that provides mobility-as-a-service and self-driving car services. It is a sub-organization of Amazon.
dateFounded in 2014
location
Foster City, California, USA
people-size1001-5000 employees
web-link
https://www.zoox.com/

H1B Sponsorship

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Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage
Total Funding
$955M
Key Investors
Grok Ventures
2020-06-26Acquired
2019-10-21Convertible Note· $200M
2018-07-08Series B· $465M

Leadership Team

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Nelson Pedreiro
Sr. Vice President, Hardware
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Zheng Gao
Director of Hardware Engineering
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