Venti Technologies

Research Scientist

• Define and drive the technical roadmap for planning within the autonomy stack, ensuring alignment with product milestones and deployment goals.
• Design and develop advanced route planning/route optimization algorithm, and behavior and motion planning algorithms for autonomous vehicles, focusing on trajectory generation to ensure safe and efficient navigation in dynamic environments.
• Lead integration of planning algorithms with perception, prediction, localization, and control systems. Anticipate system-level trade-offs and guide architectural decisions for reliable deployment.
• Implement, simulate, and validate planning algorithms in both simulation environments and real-world autonomous platforms. Conduct in-depth analysis to ensure robustness and reliability.
• Optimize existing behavior and motion planning algorithms for enhanced performance, scalability, safety, and energy efficiency. Identify bottlenecks and propose solutions to improve real-time planning.
• Provide technical guidance to researchers and engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, ownership, and delivery.
• Anticipate long-term challenges in autonomous driving (e.g., safety validation, fleet scalability, corner case handling) and propose practical solutions that accelerate product readiness.
• Partner with engineering and product teams to translate high-level requirements into planning capabilities that support commercial deployment.

Senior Research Scientist, Planning

Engineering Manager

• Monitor the day-to-day activities of multiple deployment site teams to ensure proper execution of tasks and workflows.
• Identify and troubleshoot operational bottlenecks, safety concerns, or equipment malfunctions and implement corrective actions.
• Ensure vehicles and staff comply with customer-mandated safety protocols, including mandatory training, valid site access passes, and submitting safety documents (risk assessments, safe work procedures).
• Manage US sites’ office budgets.
• Foster a positive, productive, and inclusive office culture; organize team-building events and community engagement.
• Partner with central HR on local hiring, onboarding, performance reviews, and professional development for deployment site employees.
• Act as the representative for the site to internal company stakeholders and customers; guide on-site teams to communicate needs and achievements.
• Support team members in deployment activities and, in lean situations, perform hands-on tasks: manage software validation test branches, troubleshoot on-site problems, and occasionally implement bugfix coding to reduce recovery time.
• Participate in design reviews and code reviews; provide technical insights to steer major engineering developments.
• Identify test cases for expanding regression test coverage, with specifications for essential behaviors.
• Keep abreast of current state-of-the-art robotics algorithms.

Senior Research Scientist, Planning

Site Engineering Director