Senior Software Engineer (Planning Infrastructure)

• We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to build infrastructure, tools, and systems that support our Planning team to develop, debug, evaluate, and deploy autonomy software faster and more safely
• You are part of the Planning team with a focus on understanding workflows and creating infrastructure that improves engineering velocity, software quality, system performance, and test coverage
• You will develop the internal tools, libraries, workflows, metrics, and evaluation systems that support behavior and motion planning development
• Build tools and infrastructure that accelerate Planning development
• Improve testing, debugging, metrics, and evaluation workflows
• Expose actionable insights from logs, simulation, and real-world autonomy data
• Build infrastructure that supports safety case development and test coverage analysis
• Improve internal libraries, developer workflows, and Planning observability
• Optimize performance, maintainability, and reliability of Planning software
• Partner closely with Planning engineers to identify bottlenecks and improve development velocity
• Design reusable systems and abstractions used across the Planning team
• Lead infrastructure projects with broad team-wide impact

Benefits

• Remote-friendly work environment
• 401k
• Generous PTO policy
• Life insurance
• Assortment of medical (PPO/HMO/HDHP), dental, vision, and FSA plans
• Family-friendly company events
• Dog-friendly office
• Employee-driven fitness classes
• Beautiful, renovated facilities in Mountain View, CA and Lancaster, TX
• Free EV charging
• Trivia and board game nights

• This is a great role for a strong generalist engineer who enjoys building systems that other engineers work with on a daily basis
• This role is especially well-suited for someone who enjoys multiplying the effectiveness of other engineers and wants broad technical impact
• Strong software engineering background with 5+ years experience with C++ performance optimization and large-scale software systems, ideally with autonomy or robotics systems
• Experience building tools, libraries, frameworks, infrastructure, or developer workflows
• Experience with metrics, logs, testing, debugging tools, simulation, or data-driven evaluation
• Strong collaboration skills and interest to build tools that make other engineers more effective
• Ability to write clean, maintainable, high-performance code
• Strong systems thinking and ability to understand complex engineering workflows
• Interest in autonomy, robotics, or planning systems
• Experience building safety-case tooling or test coverage infrastructure
• Experience with large-scale autonomy metrics and evaluation systems