# Senior Software Engineer - Vehicle Motion Planning & Control at Zendar

- Company: Zendar
- What the company does: Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: http://www.zendar.io
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Berkeley, CA
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $160K to $200K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-25
- Apply by: 2026-10-09
- Apply: https://zendar.breezy.hr/p/9bc7f4d25188-senior-software-engineer-vehicle-motion-planning-control
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/zendar-senior-software-engineer-vehicle-motion-planning-and-control-2/

## About the role

We are hiring a Software Engineer to join the team and you will own components from algorithm design through real-time C++ implementation, simulation, tuning, and on-vehicle validation. Because the team is small and the surface area is large, this role is ideal for someone with strong software fundamentals, a solid grounding in robotics or controls, and genuine eagerness to see their code move a physical vehicle.

## What they're looking for

- Reason about interactions with other road users and translate desired driving behavior into algorithmic changes across the planning stack
- Develop Vehicle Control Software Architect, implement, and validate control and estimation algorithms for the vehicle's longitudinal and lateral dynamics
- Write mission-critical, real-time C++ that runs on-vehicle and on embedded automotive compute
- Integrate with Perception and Platform Work closely with our Perception and Software Platform teams to define clean interfaces between perception output, planning, and control
- Support driving-function demos on our vehicles, from bring-up through customer-facing runs
- Test, Measure, and Improve Build simulation and analysis tooling in Python and C++ to evaluate planner and controller performance before code ever touches a vehicle