Principal Motion Planning Engineer

🕒 July 30, 2025

⛰️ Colorado – Remote

⛰️ Colorado – Remote

💵 $172k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Motional

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2020

🚗 Transport

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

Transport • Artificial Intelligence • Automotive

Motional is a leading company in the development of autonomous vehicles, focusing on making driverless transportation a safe, reliable, and accessible reality. A joint venture between Hyundai Motor Group and Aptiv, Motional has been at the forefront of driverless technology for decades, creating SAE Level 4 autonomous vehicles for ride-hail and delivery services. The company emphasizes safety and innovation, leveraging advanced machine learning and automotive technology to build fully driverless vehicles that integrate smoothly into mobility networks, providing an enjoyable experience for daily transportation and deliveries.

📋 Description

• Develop a variety of algorithms on planning for autonomous driving, including but not limited to search-based methods, sampling-based methods, optimization-based methods, linear-temporal logic, and decision making under uncertainty. • Integrate and evaluate combinations of motion planning and prediction algorithms. • Design and build robust and scalable codebase that enables rapid exploration and evaluation of different motion planning approaches and algorithms. • Interface with perception and prediction components upstream and trajectory optimization and tracking & control components downstream. • Participate in code reviews and mentoring sessions with senior team members. • Develop a culture of product focused engineering, research, and development.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's required, Masters or PhD degree preferred in Robotics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field. • Proven impact and expertise in the robotics / autonomous vehicle field. • 2+ years of research experience in robotics / motion planning. • 2+ years of C++ software development. • Past experience taking projects from problem formulation through implementation and deployment. • Thirst for knowledge and continuous innovation.

🏖️ Benefits

• bonus • equity • benefits