Principal Engineer / Director, Motion Planning

PlusAI

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Santa Clara, CA hybrid Until 8/21/2026 7+ years exp First posted March 26, 2025 Last posted March 26, 2025
Job description

Responsibilities:

  • Develop safety-critical software for self-driving vehicles by leading, managing, and expanding a team focused on the motion forecasting & planning.
  • Assume responsibility for the overall planning, execution, and success of autonomous driving related projects Actively code and develop prototypes to test novel algorithms and ideas.
  • Foster a culture of experimentation and innovation, while promoting technical excellence and accountability within the team.
  • Scale end-to-end ML pipelines for research and production, from data ingestion and pre-processing to model training, validation, deployment, and monitoring.
  • Stay on top of the latest trends, technologies, and best practices in machine learning and artificial intelligence.
  • Present the progress to senior leadership and cross-functional teams.
  • Ensure that technical work meets customer requirements, regulatory standards, and company quality policies.
  • Ensure that your work is performed in accordance with the company’s Quality Management System (QMS) requirements and contribute to continuous improvement efforts.
  • Ensure team compliance with QMS, monitor quality, and drive process improvements.

Required Skills:

  • 7-10 years of experience building data-driven, fault-tolerant systems
  • Proven record of delivering a DL based system
  • MS or PhD in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
  • Extensive experience designing and building modern planning systems a big plus
  • Passionate about writing amazing, robust, safety-critical, efficient C++ and Python

Preferred Skills:

  • Experience in deep learning, mobile robotics, geometric modeling and trajectory generation 

Salary Range

  • $200,000 - 280,000
Exact compensation may vary based on skills and experience.
About this role

Summary

Lead development of safety-critical autonomous driving software and manage a technical team.

Job title

Principal Engineer / Director, Motion Planning

Experience level

7-10 years

Minimum experience

7+ years exp

Industry

automotive

Location requirements

Santa Clara, CA, on-site with no remote work

Salary

$200,000 - 280,000

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

C++Pythonsystem designfault-tolerant systemsmachine learning

Preferred skills

deep learningmobile roboticsgeometric modelingtrajectory generation

Specializations

motion planningautonomous drivingmachine learningrobotics
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Santa Clara, CA, USA

On-site City
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