- Ph.D. with 3+ years or Master’s with 5+ years of experience in robotics, motion planning, or autonomous systems.
- Deep expertise in at least two of the following: lattice-based planning, trajectory optimization, model predictive control, or search-based planning.
- Strong proficiency in C++, with experience in production-quality code for real-time or safety-critical systems.
- Solid understanding of vehicle dynamics, control interfaces, and motion feasibility constraints.
- Experience with simulation tools and debugging motion planner behavior in realistic driving environments.
- Knowledge of diffusion models and/or Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models is a strong plus.
- Excellent analytical and system-level debugging skills; strong communication and cross-functional collaboration capabilities.
Salary Range - $180,000- $260,000
Founded in 2017 by experts in autonomous vehicle technology, Gatik has rapidly expanded its presence to Mountain View, Dallas-Fort Worth, Arkansas, and Toronto. As the first and only company to achieve fully driverless middle-mile commercial deliveries, Gatik holds a unique and defensible position in the AV industry, with a clear trajectory toward sustainable growth and profitability.
We have delivered complete, proprietary AV technology - an integration of software and hardware - to enable earlier successes for our clients in constrained Level 4 autonomy. By choosing the middle mile – with defined point-to-point delivery, we have simplified some of the more complex AV challenges, enabling us to achieve full autonomy ahead of competitors. Given extensive knowledge of Gatik’s well-defined, fixed route ODDs and hybrid architecture, we are able to hyper-optimize our models with exponentially less data, establish gate-keeping mechanisms to maintain explainability, and ensure continued safety of the system for unmanned operations.
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