Senior Staff / Principal Software Engineer - Freeway Autonomy

Team: Autonomy Software

Location: Foster City, CA

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: hybrid

Salary:

In this role, you will:

Guide autonomy-wide initiatives toward driverless freeway operation, including setting the technical vision and strategy, building the roadmap, and driving cross-functional execution

Identify the highest-risk gaps between our current freeway capabilities and driver-out readiness, and lead the engineering work to close them

Develop algorithms that enable freeway driving capabilities, spanning architecture, design, implementation, integration, testing, and verification and validation

Communicate technical trade-offs, risk assessments, and readiness recommendations to diverse stakeholders, including senior and executive leadership

Mentor engineers across the freeway program and raise the bar for how we design, test, and validate high-speed autonomous driving

Qualifications:

10+ years of industry software experience

Demonstrated technical leadership of removing the human driver from an autonomous vehicle operating on freeways or highways

Deep technical expertise in at least one autonomy domain, such as behavior/motion planning, perception, prediction, simulation, or systems engineering

Proven ability to lead large, cross-functional engineering efforts from ambiguity to shipped results

Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical trade-offs for varied audiences including executives

Bonus Qualifications:

Experience scaling and operating a driverless service after driver removal

Experience constructing safety cases or defining driver-out readiness criteria for high-speed autonomous driving

Proficiency in C++