Staff Software Engineer, Motion Planning

🔥 13 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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AeroVect

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11 - 50 employees

📦 Logistics

💼 Consulting

🚀 Aerospace

💰 Seed Round on 2022-07

Logistics • Consulting • Aerospace

AeroVect is a technology company that specializes in advanced automation for Ground Support Equipment (GSE) in the aviation industry. The company's flagship product, AeroVect Driver, is a highly scalable, OEM agnostic self-driving system designed to improve safety, productivity, and sustainability in ground handling operations. Trusted by leading airlines and handlers, AeroVect aims to revolutionize airside operations with its premier self-driving technology, built in Silicon Valley for the global aviation market.

📋 Description

• Design, implement, and iterate on mission, behavior, and motion planners for autonomous ground support equipment operating in airport airside environments • Drive technical decisions across the planning stack, including algorithm selection, interface definition, and system architecture • Prototype and evaluate optimization-based methods, search-based planners, and learning-augmented pipelines, bringing effective approaches to production • Collaborate with perception, controls, localization, and systems engineering teams to deliver an integrated autonomous driving system • Establish and promote software development, functional safety, and systems engineering best practices for the planning domain • Mentor engineers through technical guidance, code review, and design discussions • Report to the Planning Tech Lead and work closely with the autonomy engineering team

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Math, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, Physics, or a related field • Extensive hands-on experience designing and implementing planning modules for autonomous systems shipped to production or deployed in real-world operations • Strong programming skills in C++ (preferred) or Python • Experience with Linux-based operating systems • Demonstrated ability to take ambiguous technical problems and drive them to well-architected solutions independently • Excellent communication skills, proactiveness, and a strong sense of ownership • 5+ years of industry experience in planning for robotic ground vehicles (preferred) • Mastery of Modern C++ (14 and beyond) and safety-critical coding practices such as MISRA and ISO 26262 (preferred) • In-depth understanding of DDS frameworks like ROS/ROS2 or other networking middleware (preferred) • Experience in startup environments (preferred)