What is Motion Planning and how common is it in AI job postings?

Motion Planning is a skill in the "Robotics & Embodied" category. It currently appears in 164 active AI roles across 30 companies in our index.

Which companies are hiring for Motion Planning?

The top employers with active AI roles mentioning Motion Planning are: Anduril (60), Amazon (33), NVIDIA (10), Skydio (8), Wayve (6).

Is demand for Motion Planning growing?

Over the last 12 weeks, 75 new AI postings mentioned Motion Planning. Demand is rising — up 122% in the last four weeks compared to the earliest four weeks in the window.

At which stage of AI development is Motion Planning used?

Roles requiring Motion Planning are concentrated in: agents (63%), application (24%), post-training (4%). These stages follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle from data preparation through to shipped product.

What skills are commonly paired with Motion Planning?

Job postings that mention Motion Planning most often also require: Robotics, Machine Learning, C++, Python, Software Engineering.

← All skills

Motion Planning

164 active AI roles across 30 companies mention Motion Planning. Category: Robotics & Embodied.

Demand trend

New AI postings mentioning Motion Planning per week — 75 total over 12 weeks.

Sector

All Defense · 78 Big Tech · 38 Robotics · 19 Semiconductors · 11 AI Frontier · 5 Enterprise · 3 Data AI · 3 Industrial · 2 Consumer · 2 Retail · 1 Hospitality · 1 Healthcare · 1

Function

All Engineering · 141 Research · 17 Product · 6

Status

All Active only

Sort

AI score Recently posted Company A–Z

FilteredsectorBig Tech×statusActive only×Clear all

38 AI roles requiring this skill.

Company	Title	Sector	AI score	Stage
Amazon	Senior Applied Scientist, Safe Locomotion, Compass	Big Tech	9	L4
Amazon	Applied Scientist, Navigation	Big Tech	9	L4
Amazon	Applied Scientist, Navigation	Big Tech	9	L4
Amazon	Senior Applied Scientist, Navigation	Big Tech	9	L4
Amazon	Postdoctoral Scientist, Amazon Robotics Research and AI Development	Big Tech	9	L4
Amazon	2026 Applied Science Internship - United States, PhD Student Science Recruiting, Frontier AI & Robotics	Big Tech	9	L4
Amazon	2026 Applied Science Internship - United States, Undergrad Student Science Recruiting, Frontier AI & Robotics	Big Tech	9	L4
Amazon	2026 Applied Science Internship - United States, PhD Student Science Recruiting, Frontier AI & Robotics	Big Tech	9	L4
Amazon	Senior Applied Scientist, Delivery Foundation Model	Big Tech	9	L2
Amazon	2026 Applied Science Internship - United States, Undergrad Student Science Recruiting, Frontier AI & Robotics	Big Tech	9	L6
Google	Senior Software Engineer, AI/ML	Big Tech	8	L4
Amazon	Applied Scientist, Amazon Robotics, Compass Team	Big Tech	8	L6
Amazon	Senior Applied Scientist, Amazon Robotics - Vulcan	Big Tech	8	L6
Amazon	Applied Scientist - ML and Robotics	Big Tech	8	L6
Amazon	Sr Applied Scientist - Robotics Simulation, Amazon Robotics R&D	Big Tech	8	L0
Amazon	Director of Science, Geospatial	Big Tech	8	L6
Amazon	Applied Scientist, Last Mile Delivery Automation	Big Tech	8	L6
Amazon	Sr. Applied Scientist, Amazon Robotics, Structured Field Coordinated Planning & Control	Big Tech	8	L4
Amazon	Applied Scientist, Last Mile Delivery Automation	Big Tech	8	L4
Amazon	Robotics - Applied Scientist II Intern / Co-op - 2026 (Robotics, Manipulation, Perception, Motion Planning, Autonomous Mobile Robots, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Controls, and more)	Big Tech	8	L4
Amazon	Senior Applied Scientist, Last Mile Delivery Automation	Big Tech	8	L4
Amazon	Senior Robotics SDE III, Amazon Robotics - Vulcan	Big Tech	7	L4
Amazon	Sr. Technical Program Manager, AI Studios	Big Tech	7	L6
Amazon	Applied Scientist, Safe Control, Amazon Robotics, Compass	Big Tech	7	L6
Apple	Sr. Software Engineer: Agentic Evaluation	Big Tech	7	L5
Amazon	Applied Scientist, Amazon Robotics - Vulcan	Big Tech	7	L6
Microsoft	Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft Robotics (Navigation)	Big Tech	7	L4
Amazon	Senior Applied Scientist - SLAM and Perception, Amazon Robotics	Big Tech	7	L6
Apple	Annotation Data Scientist, Evaluation Integrity (Siri)	Big Tech	7	L5
Amazon	Technical Program Manager III, AWS Prototyping and AI Customer Engineering (PACE)	Big Tech	7	L4

Frequently asked questions

What is Motion Planning and how common is it in AI job postings?
Motion Planning is a skill in the "Robotics & Embodied" category. It currently appears in 164 active AI roles across 30 companies in our index.
Which companies are hiring for Motion Planning?
The top employers with active AI roles mentioning Motion Planning are: Anduril (60), Amazon (33), NVIDIA (10), Skydio (8), Wayve (6).
Is demand for Motion Planning growing?
Over the last 12 weeks, 75 new AI postings mentioned Motion Planning. Demand is rising — up 122% in the last four weeks compared to the earliest four weeks in the window.
At which stage of AI development is Motion Planning used?
Roles requiring Motion Planning are concentrated in: agents (63%), application (24%), post-training (4%). These stages follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle from data preparation through to shipped product.
What skills are commonly paired with Motion Planning?
Job postings that mention Motion Planning most often also require: Robotics, Machine Learning, C++, Python, Software Engineering.

Motion Planning

Top employers

Often paired with

Demand trend

Frequently asked questions

Demand trend

Motion Planning

Top employers

Often paired with

Frequently asked questions