Senior Software Engineer, Mapping & Localization

Responsibilities:

• Develop and deploy large scale map systems including offline map management and online map loading (both in Python and C++).
• Support efficient map query interface in runtime for other modules like perception, prediction and planning.
• Improve online mapping/localization watchdog and event mining system.
• Improve mapping/localization CI system.
• Work in a cross-functional environment to understand the requirements and performance of other system components such as perception, prediction, planning, control, simulation and data infrastructure.
• Work with the operations team to communicate requirements around data collection, preprocessing, labeling, testing, and analysis.

Required Skills:

• Clear understanding in classic data structures and algorithms.
• Experience in designing and implementing large real-time C++ systems and infrastructure.
• Familiar with maintaining and creating CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong proficiency in C++.
• Experience in offline large-scale map management/deployment.
• Strong written and verbal communications.
• Self-motivated, comfortable operating without direct supervision.

Preferred Skills

• Experience in online multi-tiles large scale real-time map loading.
• Experience in developing, implementing, and testing localization algorithms, such as Lidar/Visual SLAM, and Kalman filtering.
• Experience in deep learning perception systems like spatial transformer, self/cross attention, object/lane detection/tracking.