Senior Software Engineer, Navigation

Starship Technologies is revolutionizing deliveries with autonomous robots. These robots are designed to deliver food, groceries, and packages across college campuses and neighborhoods in minutes. Starship has now completed millions of autonomous deliveries to date, traveled millions of miles, and is currently doing more than 140k road crossings each day. Our contribution to society includes reducing congestion and pollution, providing zero-emissions deliveries, increasing the quality of life for residents, empowering seniors and disabled people, and enabling affordable delivery for local businesses.

We’re hitting records on an almost weekly basis. Now is an exciting time to join as we grow rapidly around the world!

To accelerate our mission, we are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Navigation Team in developing the 30k-line C++ software component that makes driving decisions within the robot based on sensing, localisation, and routing information from other modules. Our work involves path planning, safety and social interactions, dealing with anomalies and plenty of complex interactions on streets and sidewalks full of vehicles and pedestrians. As part of the Navigation team you will be a major contributor to Starship's Autonomous Driving unit with the aim to push the boundaries of robot autonomy in city environments.

Your main responsibilities are:

• Build advanced path planning and decision-making software

• Simulate the effect of changes on the robot's behavior

• Deploy new features to thousands of robots worldwide

• Monitor the global performance of changes according to key business metrics

• Prioritize work using vast amounts of data from millions of kilometers of driving

• Come up with new solutions, goals and initiatives, and coordinate them with other teams

What’s in it for you?

• You will collaborate with people who are passionate, motivated, and wonderfully capable. We are self-aware and seek feedback and improvement. We take pride in our ability to make the most of limited resources to solve problems no one has ever encountered before

• We are a fast-growing startup, with great opportunities to grow within the company. You will be part of a small team solving world-first problems at the forefront of autonomous driving at scale

• You’ll have endless opportunities to learn from our inspirational, talented team members across the globe, including some of the most experienced autonomous driving engineers in the world

What we hope you’ll bring to the table:

• An excellent track record with plenty of varied challenges

• A generalist mindset with strong analytical skills

• A firm grasp of C++

• Experience writing production-level code in resource-limited environments

• Ability to think in geometric constructs and communicate about them

• Ability to move between different software engineering fields

• Ability to work highly independently, be self-motivated, and be eager to learn

It would be a plus if you have familiarity with any of the following:

• Data-driven development

• Mechanics, electronics, or signal processing

• Robot navigation and motion planning

• Statistical methods 

Want to learn more about our robots and our people? Get in touch and let’s have a chat! Also, have a sneak peek to our blog and discover more about us!