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Avride · 1 week ago

Robot Motion Planning - Software Engineer

positionAustin, TX
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
seniorityMid Level
date3+ years exp

AVRIDE is an autonomous driving company focused on enhancing transportation safety and efficiency through advanced technology. The role involves developing real-time planning algorithms for outdoor delivery robots and validating their performance in urban environments.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)AutomotiveAutonomous VehiclesRobotics
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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
Candidates are required to be authorized to work in the U.S
The employer is not offering relocation sponsorship
Remote work options are not available

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

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Avride is a developer and operator of autonomous vehicles and delivery robots.
dateFounded in 2017
location
Austin, Texas, USA
people-size201-500 employees
web-link
https://www.avride.ai

Funding

Current Stage
Growth Stage
Total Funding
$850M
2025-10-22Corporate Round· $375M
2020-09-04Corporate Round· $100M
2020-09-04Convertible Note· $50M

Leadership Team

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Anton Slesarev
Chief Technology Officer
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Sergei Kirillov
Director Global Sales and Partnerships
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