# Senior Software Engineer, Motion Planning

As a Senior Software Engineer, Planning for self-driving trucks, you will work on developing cutting-edge software that takes data from a multitude of sensors such as cameras, radars and lidars, and converts them into actionable information for downstream components like prediction and planning. Responsibilities: Design, develop and deploy motion planning software to support PlusAI’s planning, using the latest techniques in lateral and longitudinal motion planning. Utilize latest C++ numerical optimization frameworks (e.g. qpOasys) and industry standard software tools (git, ROS, etc.) to integrate new lateral and longitudinal motion planning algorithms into our production system. Perform system level diagnostics and tuning using in-house visualization tools and open-source visualization platforms (e.g. webviz) Use good oral and written communication skills to collaborate with other engineers to produce system designs that are approved at a high level before software implementation begins Required Qualifications: MS or PhD in Computer/Software Engineering, Robotics, Robotic Systems Development, or related field. Experience developing production code in C++, with python experience a

- **Id**: 698728
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/plus-senior-software-engineer-motion-planning>
- **Role**: Robotics
- **Role family**: Robotics
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Santa Clara, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-01-30T17:24:21Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-01-30
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T01:32:33Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 284
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 1439
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Robotic Software & Control Systems, Autonomous Driving, Road Transport

## Company

- **Id**: 22363
- **Name**: PlusAI
- **Domain**: plus.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/plus>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Lever

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 73
- **Open postings**: 43
- **Ghost share**: 0.442
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 51
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 150000
- **Max**: 190000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 190000

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Computer Vision** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Motion Planning** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **ROS** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ghost
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale, company_stale
- **Days open**: 283

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

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

## Hiring locations

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-11T02:26:26Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 5 · green card filings: 4; Filings 12m: 5

## Liveness

- **Score**: 8
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.3
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 283
- **Expected fill days**: 51
- **Reasons**: conf:2, ghost, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 190000
- **Is top pay**: no

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