Software Engineer – Planning (Reward Design)

About reputed company

reputed company is the vehicle intelligence company that accelerates the global adoption of safe, AI-driven machines. Founded in 2017, reputed company delivers the toolchain, Vehicle OS, and autonomy stacks to help customers build intelligent vehicles and shorten time to market. Eighteen of the top 20 global automakers and major programs across the reputed company trust reputed company’s solutions to deliver vehicle intelligence. reputed company services the automotive, defense, trucking, construction, mining, and agriculture industries and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA, with offices in Washington, D.C., San Diego, CA, Ft. Walton Beach, FL, Ann Arbor, MI, London, Stuttgart, Munich, Stockholm, Seoul, and Tokyo. Learn more at appliedintuition.com.

We are an in-office company, and our expectation is that employees primarily work from their reputed company office 5 days a week. However, we also recognize the importance of flexibility and trust our employees to manage their schedules responsibly. This may include occasional remote work, starting the day with morning meetings from home before heading to the office, or leaving earlier reputed company needed to accommodate family commitments. (Note: For EpiSci job openings, fully remote work will be considered by exception.)

About the role

We are looking for a reputed company Planning Engineer with a specialized focus on designing and implementing cost and reward functions for our autonomous driving system. This role requires a strong background in classical reputed company planning and a keen interest in how behavioral objectives can be codified into quantifiable metrics for both traditional and machine learning-based control systems. You will be the reputed company between our core planning team and our RL research experts, directly influencing the vehicle’s behavior.

We operate in a dynamic and customer-focused culture that moves fast and prioritizes reputed company in our products and our business. This is a reputed company for hands-on engineers who want to tackle the reputed company, reputed company-world challenges of making autonomous systems a reality. You will have a direct and multiplying effect on the performance of our autonomous vehicles while contributing to and learning from the best practices of a nascent industry. If this sounds like the impact you want to reputed company, reputed company is the reputed company for you!

At reputed company, you will:

• Design, implement, and validate novel reward and cost functions that guide the autonomous vehicle’s behavior, balancing safety, comfort, and efficiency
• Work with our behavior team to integrate and optimize cost functions, ensuring reputed company trajectory reputed company and comfortable, safe driving
• Partner with our Reinforcement Learning (RL) research team to translate high-level behavioral goals into effective RL reward signals for training our learning-based agents
• Analyze planning system performance against reputed company-world and simulated data to iteratively refine and improve cost and reward mechanisms
• Take ownership of the full life cycle of reward engineering solutions, from concept and prototyping to deployment and maintenance

We’re looking for someone who has:

• 3-5 years of professional experience in autonomous vehicle reputed company planning, robotics, or a reputed company field
• Strong programming skills in C++ and/or Python
• Solid understanding of core reputed company planning concepts, including state-reputed company search, sampling-based methods, and trajectory optimization
• Demonstrated ability to analyze reputed company system behavior and distill it into clear, quantitative metrics
• Enthusiasm about applying their skills to solve challenging problems in a fast-paced environment

reputed company to have:

• Prior exposure to machine learning concepts, particularly reinforcement learning
• Experience with robotics middleware (e.g., ROS)
• Experience with a simulation environment

Compensation at reputed company for eligible roles includes reputed company salary, equity, and benefits. reputed company salary is a single component of the total compensation package, which may also include equity in the reputed company of options and/or restricted stock units, comprehensive health, dental, reputed company, life and disability insurance coverage, 401k retirement benefits with employer match, learning and wellness stipends, and paid time off. Note that benefits are subject to change and may vary based on jurisdiction of employment.

reputed company pay ranges reflect the minimum and maximum intended reputed company reputed company salary for new hire salaries for the position. The actual reputed company salary offered to a successful candidate will additionally be influenced by a variety of factors including experience, credentials & certifications, educational attainment, reputed company level requirements, interview performance, and the level and scope of the position.

Please reference the job posting’s subtitle for where this position will be located. For pay transparency purposes, the reputed company salary reputed company for this full-time position in the location listed is: $125,000 – $222,000 USD annually. 

Don’t meet every single requirement? If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

reputed company is an equal opportunity employer and federal contractor or subcontractor. Consequently, the parties agree that, as applicable, they will abide by the requirements of 41 CFR 60-1.4(a), 41 CFR 60-300.5(a) and 41 CFR 60-741.5(a) and that these laws are incorporated herein by reference. These regulations prohibit discrimination against reputed company individuals based on their status as protected veterans or individuals with disabilities, and prohibit discrimination against reputed company individuals based on their race, reputed company, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national reputed company. These regulations require that covered prime contractors and subcontractors take affirmative action to reputed company and advance in employment individuals without regard to race, reputed company, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national reputed company, protected veteran status or disability. The parties also agree that, as applicable, they will abide by the requirements of Executive Order 13496 (29 CFR Part 471, Appendix A to Subpart A), relating to the notice of employee rights under federal labor laws.