Autonomous Vehicle Trajectory Planning Engineer

5 days ago

Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom Oxa Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a skilled Autonomous Vehicle Trajectory Planning Engineer to join our team at Oxa. 

As a key member of our Planning Team, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, testing, and deploying algorithms that realize the desired behaviors for our Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) in various scenarios.

This role will focus on planning spatio-temporal trajectories that manifest the desired actions of the AV while obeying traffic rules and collaborating with our Decision Making and Controls teams.

Your Key Responsibilities:

  • Collaborate with your Team Lead and team members to solve Spatio-Temporal motion planning problems, including off-the-shelf solver evaluation and custom solver implementation.
  • Work closely with the Decision Making team to transcribe nuanced maneuvers in complex on- and off-road environments into generalized Trajectory Planning problems.
  • Collaborate with the Controls team to ensure smooth, comfortable, and precise maneuver execution for on- and off-road applications.
  • Contribute to the development of high-quality functionality and APIs that allow Planner functionality to be used as a building block for on-vehicle capabilities.
  • Create appropriate metrics and tools to measure and benchmark the performance of Planners deployed on various AV platforms.
  • Work with customers, stakeholders, and peers to ensure the right solutions are delivered and actively contribute to resolving disagreements through constructive dialogue.
  • Contribute significantly to the engineering lifecycle, including scoping, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance of your team's work.
  • Influence technical strategy within the Planning Team, ensuring alignment with your Team Lead and your counterparts in other teams.
  • Document and train others on your team's work, focus on improving features, and understand the business and customer value of your team's work.
  • Positively impact product quality, customer experience, and maintainability, and take on projects that improve team processes and solutions.
  • Contribute to hiring and onboarding at scale by defining role responsibilities and requirements, leading interviews, engaging in recruiting outreach for your team, and mentoring and developing new team members.

Requirements

To succeed in this role, you will need:

  • A PhD in a related field (Mech Eng, Aerospace, Comp Science, Robotics, Mechatronics) with 2+ years of professional experience or an MS in a related field with 4+ years of professional experience.
  • Extensive hands-on experience of optimization-based trajectory planning.
  • Experience with sampling-based trajectory planning approaches.
  • Experience with trajectory planning problem formulation and problem transcription.
  • Modern C++ algorithm development and deployment, ideally in a production environment (including STL and common testing frameworks).

Extra Kudos

Candidates with experience in technical and people leadership/management, Dynamic Programming, Model Predictive Control (MPC), iLQR, RRT, vehicle dynamics and modeling, and proven agility in fast-changing environments will be highly valued.

Why Join Oxa?

Oxa is a world-class team of experts in computer science, AI, robotics, and machine learning solving the most exciting and important technological challenges of our times.

We value diversity, creativity, and skill, and our team is guided by a shared vision to bring the benefits of autonomy to our customers and partners.

Join us to create the future of autonomy and make a meaningful impact in the world.

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