Aptiv
ADAS Planning Algorithm Engineer
Troy, MI - USA · Mid
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About the role
- We work in partnership with almost all car manufacturers.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and implement advanced behavior and motion planning algorithms for ADAS and automated driving applications.
- Develop solutions for complex urban and highway driving scenarios, including interactions with dynamic agents and uncertain environments.
- Validate algorithm performance through simulation, SIL/HIL testing, and real-world vehicle evaluation.
- Perform in-vehicle testing, debugging, and calibration using rapid-prototyping and data analysis tools.
- Optimize algorithms for real-time embedded deployment.
- Collaborate with perception, controls, systems, software, and product teams throughout the development lifecycle.
- 2+ years of industry experience developing algorithms in MATLAB and/or C/C++.
- Experience developing automotive software or systems for ADAS, automated driving, robotics, automation, or related domains.
Requirements
- Must Haves (Basic Qualifications)
- Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 2+ years of experience in behavior planning, motion planning, trajectory generation, decision making, or autonomous vehicle navigation systems.
- Proficiency with Git/Gerrit, Jira, Confluence, or similar development and collaboration tools.
- Experience with requirements management tools such as Polarion or equivalent.
- Deep understanding and experience with graph-based planning, optimization-based planning, and MPC.
- Experience with sensor fusion outputs and interaction with perception systems.
Nice to have
- Nice to Haves (Preferred Qualifications)
Skills
- Our sensors, systems and software can already be found in almost all passenger cars today.
- Why join Aptiv?
- See your work come to life on the road-helping make mobility safer, greener, and more connected.
- Ready to shape the future of mobility with us?
- ADAS Planning Algorithm Engineer
Benefits
- Private health care effective day 1 of employment
- Paid Time Off (Holidays, Vacation, Designated time off, Parental leave)
- Learning and development opportunities
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Experience integrating machine learning based components into autonomous driving stacks.
Company info
- We are Aptiv - a global technology company with 190,000 specialists in 46 countries.
- We are enabling the transition to software-defined vehicles supported by electrified and intelligently connected architectures - which will combine to power the future of mobility.
- ADAS Planning Algorithm Engineer This position is part of our Intelligent System: Sensors & Compute.
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