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Principal Engineer – Trajectory Planning Lead
Location
United States
Posted
16 days ago
Salary
$240K - $330K / year
Job Description
Job Requirements
- Proven Engineering Leadership: 2+ years of experience managing high-performing development teams, with a demonstrable track record of inspiring, mentoring, and coaching engineers and driving measurable productivity gains.
- Ship-to-Production Mindset: Experience leading the delivery of production-quality algorithms in a high-stakes environment (Autonomous Vehicles, Robotics, or Aerospace).
- Strategic Vision: Ability to look beyond the immediate deliverables to define and defend a balanced technical roadmap that balances long-term architectural health with the urgent needs of a 2026 commercial launch.
- Technical Domain Expertise: Deep theoretical and practical expertise in numerical optimization and optimal control.
- Advanced Motion Planning: Significant experience solving motion planning problems under uncertainty.
- Full-Stack Robotics Context: Strong intuition for the entire robotics stack.
- Production-Grade Software Development: Expertise in Modern C++ development within a Linux environment.
- Tooling Proficiency: Fluency in Python for rapid prototyping, data analysis, and visualization.
- Influence & Clarity: Exceptional communication skills.
- Educational Foundation: Master’s or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical/Mechanical Engineering, or a related quantitative field.
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision
- 401k with a company match
- health saving accounts
- life insurance
- pet insurance
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