# Staff Motion Planning Engineer

Senior Motion Planning Engineer (Evergreen) 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 cutting-edge research, develop advanced algorithms, and build robust software to generate safe, comfortable, and intuitive routes and motions. Role responsibilities: Lead the research and development of novel algorithms for motion planning in autonomous driving, including but not limited to advanced search-based methods, sophisticated geometry-based methods, and decision making under uncertainty with a strong emphasis on probabilistic approaches. Architect and integrate complex combinations of motion planning and prediction algorithms, driving their evaluation and refinement for real-world deployment. Design and build a robust, scalable, and high-performance codebase that facilitates rapid exploration, prototyping, and rigorous evaluation of innovative motion planning approaches and algorithms. Drive technical collaboration and interface seamlessly with perception and prediction components upstream and trajectory optimization, tracking and control components downstream, ensuring

- **Id**: 4079336
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/motional-staff-motion-planning-engineer-2>
- **Role**: Robotics
- **Role family**: Robotics
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-03-25T20:45:38Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T09:30:24Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 231
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5547
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: 401k plan, Equity, Life insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Robotic Software & Control Systems, Autonomous Driving, Smart Mobility

## Company

- **Id**: 66433
- **Name**: Motional
- **Domain**: motional.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/motional-com>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 83
- **Open postings**: 15
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.467
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 83
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 168000
- **Max**: 225000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 225000

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Motion Planning** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 231

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T16:34:32Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 15
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.529
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 231
- **Expected fill days**: 85
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:22:02Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 225000
- **Is top pay**: no

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