Software Engineer Planning

Role Summary:
We are seeking a Software Engineer - Planningto design and implement navigational planning algorithms in complex off-road and on-road terrain for unmanned ground vehicles using local sensing. These systems must performin punishing terrain:understanding how to balance fidelity and optimality against computational efficiency and robustness isa mustfor high-speedmovement. The ideal candidate has experience with both classical and learned approaches to solving planning problemsunder uncertainty experience with unmanned ground vehicles and an understanding of both the benefits and limitations ofprior maps.

In this role you will:

• Design and implement planning algorithms for navigating autonomous ground vehicles through complex off-road terrain.

• Interactfrequentlywithperceptionand control teams to create shared solutions rapid integration and adjustment of planning algorithms for a wide variety of vehicles and sensing modalities.

• Work closely with other teams onsoftware development ofa shared codebase.

• Leverage a significant corpus of offroad driving data to improveand backstopperformance via regression and progression testing.

• Participate in field tests and demonstrations / events for product testing and evaluation.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in computer science engineering or related discipline and 5 years of relevant experience; OR3 years of relevant professional experiencewith an advanced degree.

• Development experiencedevelopingproduction grade softwarein PythonorC.

Desired Experience & Qualifications:

• MS degree or PhD preferred.

• Experience creating planning algorithms to handle changing and uncertain environmentsfor mobile robots.

• Experiencedesigning systems to work in GPS Denied Degraded Intermittent and Limited (DDIL) environments.

• Experience with offroad planning for unmanned ground vehicles.

• Experience with on-road planning in structured environments.

• Experience working with and / or incorporatingopportunisticpriormapping data.

Location:

The location for this position will be onsite in either Seattle WA or Bay Area CA.

Benefits:

Pay range:

Software Engineer: $160000 - $190000 annually

Senior Software Engineer: $200000 - $230000 annually

Overland AI believes in creating a work environment that you look forward to embracing every day.

• Equity Compensation
• Best-in-class healthcare dental and vision plans
• Flexible PTO
• 401(k) with company match
• Paid parental leave

Overland AI is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race color religion creed sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression national origin age marital status disability genetic information protected veteran or military status or any other status protected by applicable law.

This position may involve access to export-controlled technology. Employment is contingent on the ability to comply with U.S. export control laws.

Overland AI provides reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans during the application process. Please contact to request an accommodation.