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Zoox · 2 months ago

Senior/Staff Software Engineer - Motion Planning

positionBoston, MA
timeFull-time
remoteHybrid
senioritySenior Level, Lead/Staff
money$229K/yr - $331K/yr
date8+ years exp

Zoox is dedicated to improving the driving behaviors of robots on public roads. The role involves creating algorithmic improvements for motion planning, testing these changes, and collaborating with various teams to enhance the robot's driving capabilities.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Autonomous VehiclesMachine LearningRoboticsTransportation
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H1B Sponsor Likelynote

Responsibilities

Create principled algorithmic improvements to specific areas of driving behavior and implement those changes in our code base
Use our extensive backend tooling to test your changes across many different driving situations at the press of a button
Lead on-vehicle drive reviews to generate actionable feedback on driving performance. Use this experience to help the team learn and make improvements
Attend conferences and survey literature to stay informed on the most recent developments in the fields of Robotics and Motion Planning
Write and file patents for novel technologies you develop

Qualification

C++Real-time motion planningConfiguration spacesPlanning techniquesROSMachine learningData-driven developmentPose estimationSLAMProbabilistic filtering3D dataCUDA

Required

Master's degree in Computer Science or related field and 8+ years of experience
Fluency in C++
Understanding of configuration spaces and a variety of planning techniques (A*, RRTs, PRMs, etc.)
Demonstrated ability to create real-time motion planning algorithms

Preferred

Significant contributions to geometric- and/or sampling-based planning algorithms
Experience with autonomous robots and machine learning or data-driven development processes
Experience with ROS, pose estimation, SLAM, probabilistic filtering, 3D data, or CUDA

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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