Principal Software Engineer - Autonomous Vehicles

We are looking for a strong algorithms and engineering leader with proven impact for Autonomous Vehicles in the DRIVE Road structure / Online mapping team. In this role, you will help craft and guide the future of our autonomous driving solution for providing a complete 3D world model including fusing signals between map and perception. You will be working closely with our perception and planning teams in providing a world model that is complete and able to drive in the most challenging roads and intersections in the U.S and China. It is a very exciting role that provides a breadth of interesting areas and is central to our vision in AV.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Develop core functionality for autonomous driving in all geographies based on the fusion of SOTA perception DNN and map signals.
• Generate real-time 3D world model utilized by planning, incorporating a variety of inputs from sensors and external sources.
• Enable HD mapless driving in complex urban scenarios by creating enriched BEV models of the world.
• Build fused static obstacles and occupancy grids and build occlusion masks to enrich AV scenarios.
• Be a technology leader by providing the team guidance on approaches to be taken to solve the hardest of AV problems. Be a hands-on collaborator with the team.
• Hiring and mentoring strong engineers within the team.
• Make sure our algorithms work well on large amounts of real and synthetic data, in a diverse range of environments and conditions
• Produce code and designs following automotive quality and safety standards.

What We Need To See:

• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or related fields or equivalent experience
• 12+ years of experience, with at least 5+ years in the AV or robotics industry.
• 3+ years of experience technically leading teams
• Passion for robotics and autonomous vehicles
• Drive to learn new things and tackle meaningful problems
• Outstanding communication and cross-team collaboration especially with multinational teams across the globe.
• Independent and analytical software engineering skills
• Software development experience on embedded or automotive platforms.

Ways To Stand Out From The Crowd:

• Background in 3D geometry, computer vision, sensor calibration, or state estimation algorithms like Kalman filters, particle filters
• Significant industry experience in the AV area esp. self-driving cars.
• Experience developing real-time Computer Vision systems.
• Strong API and framework design skills

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