Senior Software Engineer - Planning
Applied Intuition · Tokyo
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At a glance
Highlights
- Design safety-critical motion planners for fallback and minimal-risk maneuvers.
- Ensure safe AV behavior under degraded perception and system faults.
- Build reusable fallback platform used across trucking autonomy programs.
Ideal candidate
Hands-on motion planning engineer with 5+ years in robotics who thrives on deterministic, safety-critical systems and large-scale evaluation. Data-driven collaborator excited to make autonomy safe under uncertainty.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in motion planning for autonomous vehicles or robotics
- Strong foundation in motion planning algorithms and trajectory generation
- Experience building deterministic, safety-critical planning systems
- Data-driven mindset for large-scale evaluation, debugging and tuning
- Proficiency in C++ and experience working in real-time systems
- Strong systems thinking and cross-functional collaboration skills
- remote policy
- In-office 5 days a week with occasional flexibility
Lab profile
About Applied Intuition
Builds simulation, vehicle OS, and autonomy infrastructure for automotive, defense, and heavy industries.
What they build
- Autonomy software stacks
- Vehicle operating systems
- Simulation and validation tooling
Known for
- Trusted by 18 of top 20 global automakers
- Expertise across automotive, defense, trucking, mining and agriculture
- Full-stack coverage from tooling to OS to autonomy
Key facts
- Founded in 2017
- Headquartered in Silicon Valley
- Valued at $15 billion
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