Software Engineer – Motion Planning and Control

Software Engineer – Motion Planning and Control

Sunnyvale, California, United States

Applied Intuition, Inc. is powering the future of physical AI. Founded in 2017 and now valued at $15 billion, the Silicon Valley company provides digital infrastructure to enable intelligence in moving machines. Applied Intuition serves the automotive, defense, trucking, construction, mining and agriculture industries in three core areas: tools and infrastructure, operating systems, and autonomy. Eighteen of the top 20 global automakers, as well as the United States military and its allies, trust the company’s solutions.

Applied Intuition is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with offices in multiple locations worldwide. Learn more at

About the role

• Analyze user needs and software requirements, develop solutions, and determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints.
• Design, develop, and modify software specifications and determine performance standards.
• Develop scalable applications and participate in all aspects of software development including design, implementation, and testing.
• Develop or direct software system testing or validation procedures, programming, or documentation and architect solutions to bottlenecks.
• Prepare reports or correspondence concerning project specifications, activities, or status.
• Build out infrastructure initiatives, optimize cloud compute and storage costs, and help design new cloud projects.
• Collaborate with domain experts to design software and obtain information on project limitations, capabilities, performance requirements, and interfaces.
• Work on solutions to autonomy industry infrastructure problems.
• Design, develop, and maintain software solutions for autonomy and mobility products, particularly advanced behavior and motion planning algorithms for off-road vehicles.
• Work across the technology stack, handling full-stack development, infrastructure, simulation, testing, and more.
• Create behavior and motion planning with collision avoidance systems for safe, efficient and robust software that meets customer and internal needs.

• Must have at least a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Robotics, or related
• At least 2 years of experience as a Software Engineer for an autonomous technology company
• At least 2 years of experience using C++, search algorithms, path planning, motion planning algorithms, obstacle avoidance, behavior trees, finite state machines, Markov decision processes, Robot Operating System (ROS), MPC, LQR, PID, and Linux.

The salary range for this position is $149,365 - $245,000 per year USD annually. Please apply on this page  .

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Don’t meet every single requirement? If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Applied Intuition is an equal opportunity employer. The company and its contractors comply with applicable equal employment opportunity laws and regulations.