Senior/Staff Software Engineer - Motion Planning

🕒 November 5, 2025

🏢🏡 Boston – Hybrid

💵 $229k - $331k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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Zoox

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1001 - 5000 employees

Zoox is transforming mobility-as-a-service by developing a fully autonomous, purpose-built fleet designed for AI to drive and humans to enjoy.

📋 Description

• Create principled algorithmic improvements to specific areas of driving behavior and implement those changes in our code base. • Use our extensive backend tooling to test your changes across many different driving situations at the press of a button. • Lead on-vehicle drive reviews to generate actionable feedback on driving performance. Use this experience to help the team learn and make improvements. • Attend conferences and survey literature to stay informed on the most recent developments in the fields of Robotics and Motion Planning. • Write and file patents for novel technologies you develop.

🎯 Requirements

• Master's degree in Computer Science or related field and 8+ years of experience • Fluency in C++ • Understanding of configuration spaces and a variety of planning techniques (A*, RRTs, PRMs, etc.) • Demonstrated ability to create real-time motion planning algorithms • Significant contributions to geometric- and/or sampling-based planning algorithms (bonus) • Experience with autonomous robots and machine learning or data-driven development processes (bonus) • Experience with ROS, pose estimation, SLAM, probabilistic filtering, 3D data, or CUDA (bonus)

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive package of benefits, including paid time off (e.g. sick leave, vacation, bereavement) • Unpaid time off • Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights • Amazon RSUs • Health insurance • Long-term care insurance • Long-term and short-term disability insurance • Life insurance