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Motion and Behavior Planning Engineer

Tensor Auto
San Jose, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 4/14/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/9/2026

Tensor is an agentic AI company dedicated to building agentic products that empower individual consumers. Our flagship product, the Tensor Robocar, is the world’s first personal Robocar and the first AI agentic vehicle — fully autonomous, automotive-grade, and built for private ownership at scale. Founded in 2016 in Silicon Valley, Tensor is headquartered in San Jose, California, with offices in Barcelona, Singapore, and Dubai. At Tensor, we champion personal AI autonomy and ownership. Our vision is to build a future where everyone owns their own Artificial General Intelligence — a personal AGI that enables more time, freedom, and autonomy. We’re forging an alternative path where AGI serves only you, and is controlled solely by you.


Motion and Behavior Planning Engineer


Responsibilities



  • Develop and optimize probabilistic and machine learning based planning software stack.
  • Develop and improve tools’ efficiency to monitor online planning systems.
  • Develop verification and test strategies to meet product requirements.
  • Analyze and benchmark system performance to meet product requirements.
  • Setting technical and product vision for the team, helping craft strategy and anticipating challenges related to scale.
  • Proposing and developing software architecture based on product requirements.


Qualifications

  • MS in Computer Science, Robotics, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Strong in Python and/or C programming skills.
  • Experience in PyTorch/Tensorflow and its computation graph.
  • Experience with building large-scale ML pipelines.
  • Good communication and collaboration skills.



Preferences

  • PhD in Computer Science, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Experience with developing ML based algorithms for prediction, motion planning or LLM/VLMs.
  • Experience with ML model compression, quantization, distillation.
  • Experience with GPU profiling, GPU scheduling.
  • 2 years of industrial experience.

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