Senior Software Engineer Planning
Applied Intuition is a physical-AI company that provides software platforms for developing, validating, deploying, and operating intelligent vehicles and machines.
About Applied Intuition
Founded in 2017, Applied Intuition builds physical-AI tooling and infrastructure, a Vehicle OS, and a Self-Driving System for automotive, defense, trucking, construction, mining, agriculture, and robotics applications.
Skills
Candidate Availability
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About the Role
You will design and ship deterministic, safety-critical motion planning systems for autonomous vehicles operating under uncertainty. You will build and evaluate fallback maneuvers, analyze large-scale simulation and real-world data, tune planner behavior, and collaborate across autonomy disciplines.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in motion planning for autonomous vehicles or robotics.
- Robotic motion planning algorithms and trajectory generation.
- Experience building deterministic, safety-critical planning systems.
- Large-scale evaluation, debugging, and tuning of planning behavior.
- C++ proficiency.
- Experience with real-time systems.
- Systems thinking and cross-functional collaboration.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement classical or ML motion planners for fallback and minimal-risk maneuvers.
- Build planners that operate reliably under degraded perception, partial observability, and system faults.
- Define and execute safe, deterministic vehicle motions, including controlled slow-downs, pull-overs, and safe stops.
- Use large-scale simulation and real-world data to evaluate planner behavior and guide parameter tuning.
- Develop metrics, analysis tools, and dashboards to understand planner performance at scale.
- Collaborate with behavior prediction, perception, controls, safety, and remote assistance teams.
- Contribute to a reusable fallback platform for trucking and other autonomy programs.