Software Engineer II, Motion Planning

at  Gatik AI Inc

WHO WE ARE:

Founded in 2017, Gatik is the leader in autonomous middle mile logistics. We deliver goods safely and efficiently using medium duty trucks with a focus on short-haul, B2B logistics for Fortune 500 customers such as Walmart and Loblaw. Gatik enables our customers to optimize their hub-and-spoke operations, enhance service levels and product flow across multiple locations while reducing labor costs and meeting an unprecedented expectation for faster deliveries.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

We are seeking senior or staff software engineers to join our planning team to build motion planning and decision-making systems and help mature new products all the way through to production. Our planning team calculates safe paths for the autonomous vehicle to follow using mapping data, localization data, waypoints, and predicted actors around the vehicle. Your contribution will improve planning for emergency situations and planning for complicated maneuvers such as loading dock access and variable lane changes.
This role is onsite 5 days a week at our Mountain View, CA office!

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Design, build, and test the algorithms for motion and behavior planning for autonomous driving on urban roads and highways.
• Provide end-to-end ownership of the path planning and decision-making systems, ensuring that the behavior of Gatik’s vehiclesis safe, smooth, and predictable to other road users.
• Build tools that prioritize and debug issues and contribute to the development of simulation architecture to enable Gatik’ssoftware stack to be trained, tested, prototyped, and validated in a virtual environment.
• Develop a thorough understanding of the constraints and challenges of path planning for Gatik’s unique use case and ODD.
• Own the vehicle functions end to end, integrate the algorithms into Gatik’s software stack, and mature them to productionquality.
• Automate scenario generation of on-road experiences using analytical and learned techniques.