This is a hands-on, system-critical engineering role with ownership over how our system interprets the driveblocks environment model and acts on it safely and reliably in challenging off-road conditions. You will work closely with engineering and customer deployment teams to adapt and extend our planning and navigation stack - evolving toward more customized solutions tailored to driveblocks’ needs.
Beyond implementation, you will contribute to conceptual system design, helping shape how the execution part of our software should evolve as we scale across vehicle platforms and industries.
- Adapt, configure, and extend the driveblocks navigation stack for real-world deployments in challenging off-road environments
- Develop custom planning components (planners, controllers, cost functions, behaviors) as system requirements evolve
- Design and implement robust motion planning pipelines under real-world constraints
- Contribute to ego state estimation (sensor fusion, localization robustness) and its integration with planning
- Reason about complex environmental representations and translate them into safe, efficient robot behavior
- Identify and address failure modes in planning and localization, improving system robustness and safety
- Collaborate closely with platform software and customer deployment teams to ensure performance targets
- Contribute to architectural decisions around planning, state estimation, and system integration