Remote Principal Software Engineer

Summary

Join a growing team at Outrider, a software company automating distribution yards with electric, self-driving trucks. As a Principal Motion Planning Engineer, you'll develop and deploy high-performance software controlling the behaviors of automated electric yard trucks.

Requirements

• Familiarity with state of the art, best practices, and research in navigation, motion planning and controls
• Strong C++ software development skills
• Proven track record in navigation and planning in robotics
• Experience working in competitive AI companies & startups
• Ability to design, implement, and deploy motion planning and control software stacks
• A growth mindset
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Recurring success in multiple technical projects of increasing complexity
• Proven success developing motion planning and controls software for a robot or autonomous vehicle outside of the laboratory
• Degree in CS or equivalent
• Fluency in English

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and deploy motion planning and controls algorithms
• Develop cutting-edge C++ software running on autonomous vehicles that controls their maneuvers and avoids collision with nearby obstacles
• Build new features to support the needs of our customers in global distribution centers
• Monitor performance metrics of our product operating at customer sites and develop new performance metrics to meet the customers’ needs
• Contribute generally to the growth and success of Outrider and the building of a vibrant culture focused on the responsible deployment of zero-emission autonomous vehicle technology
• Provide technical and theoretical guidance to planning team
• Communicate and distill evaluations and results to the leadership
• Help to design/improve our key tools: simulation, evaluation, compute
• Lead cross functional efforts with the other autonomy stakeholders  and upstream/downstream components

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with software development on autonomous vehicles
• Experience participating in github repos, or open source projects
• Experience working on safety certifiable autonomous systems
• Familiarity with the robot operating system (ROS)
• Experience with containerized environments, such as Docker

Benefits

• Full health benefits
• Fully remote
• Home office stipend up to $500