Senior Motion Planning Engineer

🕒 July 21, 2025

🔔 Pennsylvania – Remote

🔔 Pennsylvania – Remote

💵 $168k - $225k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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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

• Lead the research and development of novel algorithms for motion planning in autonomous driving, including but not limited to advanced search-based methods, sophisticated geometry-based methods, and decision making under uncertainty with a strong emphasis on probabilistic approaches. • Architect and integrate complex combinations of motion planning and prediction algorithms, driving their evaluation and refinement for real-world deployment. • Design and build a robust, scalable, and high-performance codebase that facilitates rapid exploration, prototyping, and rigorous evaluation of innovative motion planning approaches and algorithms. • Drive technical collaboration and interface seamlessly with perception and prediction components upstream and trajectory optimization, tracking and control components downstream, ensuring end-to-end system performance. • Leverage your deep software development and research expertise to teach others better software practices and principles, fostering a culture of technical excellence. • Guide and mentor junior team members, cultivating a culture of product-focused engineering, rigorous research, and advanced development.

🎯 Requirements

• PhD preferred in Robotics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field; or a Master's degree with 2+ years of experience in the robotics (preferably AV industry) • 5+ years of research experience in robotics / motion planning, with a proven track record of contributing to state-of-the-art solutions • 3+ years of C++ software development, with an emphasis on developing high-performance and reliable systems • Past experience owning and leading technical development on complex features from problem formulation through research, implementation, and deployment in a production environment. • Thirst for knowledge, continuous innovation, and a drive to push the boundaries of autonomous driving technology.

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision • 401k with a company match • Health saving accounts • Life insurance • Pet insurance • and more.