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About the Role
As a Motion Planning Engineer, you will design and ship deterministic, safety-critical planning systems that ensure autonomous vehicles behave safely under uncertainty or system degradation. The role focuses on classical motion planning, predictable behavior, and large-scale evaluation within a fast-paced, customer-focused environment.
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 such as 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 closely with behavior prediction, perception, controls, safety, and remote assistance teams.
- Contribute to a reusable fallback platform used across trucking and other autonomy programs.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in motion planning for autonomous vehicles or robotics.
- Strong foundation in robotic motion planning algorithms and trajectory generation (optimization-, search-, or rule-based).
- Experience building deterministic, safety-critical planning systems.
- Data-driven mindset for large-scale evaluation, debugging, and tuning of planning behavior.
- Proficiency in C++ and experience working in real-time systems.
- Strong systems thinking and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Skills
- Motion planning
- Robotics
- Trajectory generation
- C++
- Real-time systems
- Systems thinking
- Minimal-risk maneuvers (MRM)
- Emergency handling behaviors
- AV safety concepts
- ODD constraints
- Safety-case-driven development
- Machine learning
- Simulation frameworks
- Log analysis
Location
- Sunnyvale, California
- Washington, D.C.
- San Diego, California
- Ft. Walton Beach, Florida
- Ann Arbor, Michigan
- London, UK
- Stuttgart, Germany
- Munich, Germany
- Stockholm, Sweden
- Bangalore, India
- Seoul, South Korea
- Tokyo, Japan
Work Type
- In-office
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5+ years
About the Company
- Applied Intuition is powering the future of physical AI.
- Founded in 2017 and valued at $15 billion.
- Creates digital infrastructure to bring intelligence to moving machines.
- Services the automotive, defense, trucking, construction, mining, and agriculture industries.
- Core areas include tools and infrastructure, operating systems, and autonomy.
Equal Opportunity
- Applied Intuition is an equal opportunity employer and federal contractor.
- Prohibits discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability.