Get to Know the Team
Our team develops production-grade robotics and autonomy capabilities for the uniquely complex, unstructured urban environments of Southeast Asia. We are ambitious and pragmatic: advancing perception, planning, and control step by step, with safety evidence as the gate for every milestone. We focus on building robust system capabilities, scaling with uncompromised quality, and collaborating with industry leaders while investing in in-house expertise where it differentiates us.
We are a senior, hands-on engineering group that prizes operational excellence, clear interfaces, and reproducible pipelines.
Get to Know the Role
As the Principal Motion Planning Engineer, you will own the behavioral and motion planning stack for Grab's autonomous platform.
You will architect, deliver, and continuously improve a production-grade motion planning system that integrates constrained trajectory optimization with learning-based models for interaction-aware decision-making in complex urban environments.
You will lead closed-loop validation and ML experimentation across simulation and real-world testing to measurably improve planner robustness, safety, and performance.
This is a hands-on technical leadership role with domain ownership of planning. You will report to the Head of Engineering.
The Critical Tasks You Will Perform
Technical Direction & System Architecture
Hands-on Development & Implementation
Cross-Functional Collaboration & Technical Influence