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# Staff Software Engineer, Motion Planning

- **Company:** WAABI PARTNERS
- **Location:** Phoenix, AZ, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $158,000.0 - $269,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, C++ (Programming Language), Python (Programming Language), Search Algorithms, Motion Planning, Information Technology
- **Published:** September 26, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/16_97d197248

## About the Role

prototype and test new algorithms, Open-minded and collaborative team player with the willingness to help others. - Able to maintain progress towards long-term goals while working on short-term problems. - Passionate about self-driving technologies, solving hard problems, and creating innovative solutions. Bonus/nice to have: - Experience working in self-driving field. - Experience in optimization.

## Description

You will... - Design and develop motion planning software and algorithms, building the brain which orchestrates decision making in dynamic, uncertain and interactive traffic scenarios. - Be part of a team of multidisciplinary Engineers and Research Scientists using an AI-first approach to enable safe self-driving at scale. - Participate and share ideas in technical and architecture discussions, collaborating with researchers and engineers to build a reliable autonomy stack for self-driving vehicles. Qualifications: - MS/PhD or Bachelor degree with a minimum of 4 years of industry experience in Computer Science, Robotics and/or similar technical field(s) of study. - Experience in planning/decision making approaches (e.g., optimal control, optimization based approaches, search methods, probabilistic decision making). - Production-quality coding skill in Python or C++. - Solid problem solving skills using linear algebra, geometry, statistics & probability. -, Ability to rapidly


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