Behavior Planning Engineer

Company: XPENG Motors
Location: Mountain View
Posted on: May 3, 2021

Job Description:

XPeng Motors is one of China's leading smart electric vehicle ("EV") companies. We design, develop, manufactures and market smart EVs that are seamlessly integrated with advanced Internet, AI and autonomous driving technologies. We are committed to in-house R&D and intelligent manufacturing to create a better mobility experience for our customers. We strive to transform smart electric vehicles with technology and data, shaping the mobility experience of the future. We are looking for a behavior planning engineer with strong programming and software development skills to develop the behavior planning software pipeline. You will be responsible for software architecture design and development of core functional modules that generate high level decisions for the vehicle based on Sensor Fusion and Localization outputs.You will be working with a team of best in class computer vision and AI systems and software engineers to ensure best behavior planning performance on our autonomous vehicles. Your work will ensure that we deliver most reliable mass market autonomous vehicle solution.JobResponsibilities:Design and develop the behavior planning algorithms/modules to generate high level decisions for autonomous vehicles that improve efficiency and ensure safetyWork closely with other module teams in the system that provides input to behavior planning and consumes output of behavior planning.Work closely with systems and test teams on development and testing of algorithms/modules on simulation and on-target platforms.Minimum SkillRequirements:Master's in computer science or equivalent technical fieldExperience in development of full stack software solutionsProficiency in developing and implementing algorithms in C / C++Excellent problem-solving skillsPreferred SkillRequirements:Software Development experience for embedded systems involving integration of hardware and softwareKnowledge in behavior planning related fields, including but not limited to, optimization, POMDP, traffic scene understanding and analysis.Hands on experience with finite state machine developmentHands on experience with simulation environmentsFamiliarity with deep learning based decision making techniquesWhat do we provide:A fun, supportive and engaging environmentOpportunity to make significant impact on transportation revolution by the means of advancing autonomous drivingOpportunity to work on cutting edge technologies with the top talent in the fieldCompetitive compensation packageSnacks, lunches and fun activitiesWe are an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is our policy to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified persons without regard to race, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status or marital status or any other prescribed category set forth in federal or state regulations.SDL2017

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