C++ Developer for the Motion Planning Team

Yandex strives to make the movement of people and goods safer, more accessible, and more convenient. Our bold goal is to be among the world's first companies to develop autonomous vehicle technology. To achieve this goal, we are building a team of talented and dedicated professionals.

The "AI Technology Safety" team develops planning algorithms that allow a vehicle to plot safe and comfortable trajectories, taking into account the surrounding environment.

What tasks await you

Performance Optimization You will analyze and optimize the code of the control subsystem to identify bottlenecks and improve its efficiency, ensure maximum system performance, including improving algorithms, reducing execution time, and minimizing resource usage.

Development of Multithreaded and Distributed Systems You will participate in the design and implementation of a high-load, multithreaded and distributed architecture, working with inter-process communication and synchronization.

Improvement of the Generalized Kinematic Abstraction Library You will solve complexities related to various aspects of motion and develop universal, fast methods for calculating motion characteristics.

We expect that you

• Have over a year of industrial C++ development experience
• Have a strong algorithmic background, know classical algorithms and data structures
• Write clear and clean code
• Can work effectively in a team

Will be a plus

• Have a technical or natural science education
• Have successfully participated in technical subject Olympiads in school or university
• Know Python at a basic level
• Have a good knowledge of physics at a school level