Senior/ Staff Software Engineer, Motion Planning (Autonomous Vehicles)

Location: Onsite 5 days a week at the Santa Clara, California office

Salary: $180,000–$260,000 per year

Company

hirify.global develops Level 4 autonomous transportation technology for short-haul, B2B middle-mile logistics, integrating software and hardware for commercial autonomous truck operations.

What you will do

• Design, implement, and optimize the motion planning stack for autonomous vehicles.
• Develop lattice-based, sampling-based, and optimization-based planners for dynamically feasible, collision-free trajectories.
• Integrate perception, prediction, and control constraints into context-aware motion plans under uncertainty.
• Collaborate with behavior planning, control, and mapping teams to improve planning consistency.
• Optimize and maintain C++ infrastructure for real-time onboard trajectory generation, evaluation, and deployment.
• Analyze simulation and on-road performance, resolving failures involving traffic interactions, occlusions, and dynamic obstacles.

Requirements

• Ph.D. with 3+ years or Master’s with 5+ years of experience in robotics, motion planning, or autonomous systems.
• Deep expertise in at least two of lattice-based planning, trajectory optimization, model predictive control, or search-based planning.
• Strong proficiency in C++ and experience writing production-quality code for real-time or safety-critical systems.
• Understanding of vehicle dynamics, control interfaces, and motion feasibility constraints.
• Experience with simulation tools and debugging motion planner behavior in realistic driving environments.
• Strong analytical, system-level debugging, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of diffusion models or Vision-Language-Action models.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on autonomous transportation technology deployed in commercial logistics operations.
• Collaborative, respectful, and agile working culture.
• Commitment to diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunity.
• Opportunity to contribute to supply-chain resilience and sustainability.