Staff Motion Planning Engineer is open at Motional in Boston, Massachusetts, United States; Remote U.S.. The posting gives a salary of $168K - $225K. Posted on Mar 25, 2026, and still on Motional’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
you'll perform research, develop algorithms, and build software to generate safe, comfortable, and intuitive routes and motions. Role responsibilities: Develop a variety of algorithms on planning for autonomous driving, including but not limited to search-based methods, sampling-based methods, optimization-based methods, linear-temporal logic, and decision making under uncertainty. Integrate and evaluate…
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