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Software Engineer – Simulation Motion Planning
| Company | Zoox |
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| Location | Seattle, WA, USA |
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| Salary | $155000 – $220000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s, Master’s |
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| Experience Level | Mid Level, Senior |
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Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Robotics Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field
- PhD or 4+ years of experience in a related field
- Fluency in C++
- Mathematics skills, including trigonometry, linear algebra, and calculus
- Experience with motion planning, control systems, constrained optimization, and state estimation
Responsibilities
- Populate the simulated roads with intelligent participants.
- Create simulated cars, pedestrians, bicyclists, motorcyclists, etc. to behave realistically by default, and tunable to create a full gamut of traffic/agent behaviors.
- Push the state of the art in traffic and behavior modeling to capture real-world behaviors as closely as possible.
- Work closely with various teams — including AI software teams, QA, and Validation Engineers — to push autonomous driving forward.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in game development, traffic simulation, motion planning, or pathfinding
- Experience in automotive, robotics, data science, or machine learning
- Familiarity with Python
