Motion Planning Cost Development Intern

Summary

Join our fast-moving and highly execution-oriented team at Zoox as we develop the first ground-up, fully autonomous vehicle fleet. We're looking for a software engineer with experience building real-time motion planning/trajectory generation algorithms for robots in uncertain environments.

Requirements

• B.S., M.S., or PhD Candidate in Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, or related field
• Fluency in C/C++
• Understanding of configuration spaces and a variety of planning techniques (A*, D*, RRTs, etc.)
• Understanding of graphs and their application to continuous spaces
• Demonstrated ability to create real-time motion planning algorithms
• Extensive experience with programming and algorithm design
• Strong mathematical and geometrical skills

Responsibilities

Decision-making and motion planning are the primary responsibilities of mobile robots

Preferred Qualifications

• Contributions to geometric- and/or sampling-based planning algorithms
• Experience with autonomous robots
• Experience with pose estimation, SLAM, probabilistic filtering, and 3D data
• Knowledge of computer vision techniques and machine learning
• Solid understanding of ROS

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• 401k
• Housing stipend