# Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Motion Planning

About the Team The Planning team is responsible for making sure PlusAI’s trucks make the right decision in every driving situation, safely, smoothly, and predictably for other road users, even when working with noisy, uncertain, or incomplete information about the world. This is a cross-functional problem that requires close collaboration with Perception, Prediction, Controls, and Safety, and a willingness to work at the edge of research and production: bringing state-of-the-art decision-making and optimization techniques into a system that runs on real trucks, on real roads, today. About the Role As a Senior Software Engineer on the Motion Planning team, you’ll research, develop, and implement planning technologies that let PlusAI’s trucks handle complex, real-world driving scenarios in a safe and human-like manner. You’ll work across the full decision-making stack, from reasoning about what the truck should do to determining precisely how it should get there, while accounting for the many ways a scenario could unfold. Responsibilities Design and implement algorithms for decision-making and trajectory generation, ensuring safety, comfort, and reliability across a wide range of dri

- **Id**: 698321
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/plus-seniorstaff-software-engineer-motion-planning>
- **Role**: Robotics
- **Role family**: Robotics
- **Seniority**: staff
- **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**: 2026-08-27T20:28:02Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-08-27
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T01:32:33Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 75
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3273
- **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**: 130000
- **Max**: 220000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 220000

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Motion Planning** — Optional: no
- **Path Planning** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **ROS** — Optional: no
- **Imitation Learning** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: company_stale
- **Days open**: 74

## Requirements

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

### Education

- **Level**: phd
- **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**: 42
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.765
- **P room**: 0.55
- **Age days**: 74
- **Expected fill days**: 51
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 220000
- **Is top pay**: no

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