Staff Motion Planning Engineer

Motional · Boston, Massachusetts, United States; Remote U.S. · Remote-friendly

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Company
Motional
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States; Remote U.S.
Salary
$168,000 — $225,000
Posted
March 25, 2026

About this job

On our Motion Planning team, you'll apply your passion in robotics and software development for production-ready autonomous vehicles. In this role you'll perform research, develop algorithms, and build software to generate safe, comfortable, and intuitive routes and motions. Role responsibilities: Develop a variety of algorithms on planning for autonomous driving, including but not limited to search-based methods, sampling-based methods, optimization-based methods, linear-temporal logic, and decision making under uncertainty. Integrate and evaluate combinations of motion planning and prediction algorithms Design and build robust and scalable codebase that enables rapid exploration and evaluation of different motion planning approaches and algorithms.

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