Principal Software Engineer, Outrider
Motion Planning
$250-450k
+ Equity
Autonomous zero-emission yard operations
Job no longer available
Autonomous zero-emission yard operations
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$250-450k
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To drive the rapid adoption of sustainable freight transportation by deploying zero-emission systems.
Role
Who you are
- Familiarity with state of the art, best practices, and research in motion planning and controls
- Ability to design, implement, and deploy motion planning and control software stacks
- A growth mindset
- Strong C++ software development skills
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Fluency in English
- Recurring success in multiple technical projects of increasing complexity
- Proven success developing motion planning and controls software for a robot or autonomous vehicle outside of the laboratory
- Degree in CS or equivalent
Desirable
- Experience with software development on autonomous vehicles
- Experience working on safety certifiable autonomous systems
- Familiarity with the robot operating system (ROS)
- Experience with containerised environments, such as Docker
What the job involves
- As a full-time Principal Motion Planning Engineer, you will develop and deploy high-performance software that is responsible for controlling the behaviors of our automated electric yard truck that transports trailers around customer sites
- You will steer and execute the technical strategy for our planning stack
- You will collaboratively solve big technical challenges together with a talented engineering team that is customer-focused and motivated to make this product a reality
- You will have the support of a leadership that is laser focused on a product
- Design, implement, and deploy motion planning and controls algorithms
- Develop cutting-edge C++ software running on autonomous vehicles that controls their maneuvers and avoids collision with nearby obstacles
- Build new features to support the needs of our customers in global distribution centers
- Monitor performance metrics of our product operating at customer sites and develop new performance metrics to meet the customers’ needs
- Contribute generally to the growth and success of Outrider and the building of a vibrant culture focused on the responsible deployment of zero-emission autonomous vehicle technology
- Provide technical and theoretical guidance to planning team
- Communicate and distill evaluations and results to the leadership
- Help to design/improve our key tools: simulation, evaluation, compute
- Lead cross functional efforts with the other autonomy stakeholders and upstream/downstream components
Our take
Logistics yards are complex and often chaotic settings, that present numerous hazards to human workers. Outrider supplies autonomous electric yard trucks to automate repetitive, manual, and hazardous tasks, removing humans from dangerous roles, and playing into the safety concerns of every yard manager.
The company is introducing the transformational technology required for large, logistics-dependent enterprises to keep pace with the changing times. With some 400,000 distribution yards across the US, the scale of this opportunity is huge, and Outrider has seen a lot of interest from the industry. By making its solutions electronic, it also caters to growing environmentally aware attitudes and protocols, tackling the immense carbon emissions generated by yard-operated diesel trucks.
As a leading technical innovator, Outrider consistently develops and releases new products and service updates. The company has secured significant investments, which are being used to enhance its portfolio of autonomy and safety technologies, support hiring efforts both domestically and internationally, and scale its yard automation solutions for large customers across various industries.
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Insights
7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Oct 2024
$62m
SERIES D
Jan 2023
$73m
SERIES C
Total funding: $306m
Company benefits
- 100% Remote work set up, flexible work schedule (Flex time - off policy)
- Annual career development stipend to support and encourage your career growth
- Allowance for home office set up
- Business traveling in our headquarters in Denver, Colorado (3-4 times/year) to stay connected with the team
Company HQ
Golden, CO
Leadership
Andrew Smith
(CEO)They worked as a Consultant at Monitor Group and OTF Group for a combined 11 years, before founding ATDynamics in 2006. They joined XStream and Branch Technology in 2016, before founding Outrider as CEO in January 2018.
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