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Senior Motion Designer roles qualify for EB-2 and EB-3 green card sponsorship through the PERM labor certification process, where your employer documents that no equally qualified U.S. worker is available. Production studios, agencies, and in-house creative teams regularly sponsor foreign motion designers, making this one of the more accessible creative-discipline paths to permanent U.S. residency.
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We are seeking a Senior Staff Motion Planning Engineer to architect and lead the execution of core autonomous capabilities. In this role, you will move away from isolated component development to own entire technical verticals—harmonizing algorithm design, closed-loop evaluation, and systems level thinking to deliver complete, production-grade driving behaviors.
Your work will sit at the intersection of classical robotics and data-driven intelligence, ensuring our vehicles operate with unparalleled safety and efficiency. If you are a seasoned engineer who thrives on solving high-dimensional problems, possesses a deep "data-first" mindset, and is ready to act as a technical pillar for the planning team, we want to hear from you.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Own End-to-End Technical Verticals: Lead the design, integration, and deployment of complete autonomous capabilities (e.g., complex urban intersection navigation, dense highway maneuvering) by tying together algorithmic logic, system constraints, and metric frameworks.
- Architect Holistic Evaluation Paradigms: Define and implement the overarching "eval" strategy for your technical verticals. Create sophisticated, multi-layered metrics that go beyond simple pass/fail to continuously quantify safety, comfort, and human-likeness across millions of simulation miles.
- Synthesize Data-Driven & Classical Approaches: Lead the transition from rigid, heuristic-based decision-making to scalable, data-informed frameworks. Utilize petabyte-scale fleet data to uncover systemic gaps and fundamentally evolve planning behavior.
- Cross-Functional Technical Orchestration: Serve as the primary technical authority aligning Product, Safety, Simulation, and Infrastructure teams to ensure your vertical capability can be seamlessly validated and deployed.
- Architectural Oversight: Navigate the tradeoffs between computational efficiency and plan quality, ensuring the motion planning stack remains performant in real-time environments.
- Foster Engineering Excellence: Promote a culture of clean, extendable C++ and Python code, ensuring the codebase is modular and collaborative.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Robotics, Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, or a related field.
- 10+ years of experience in motion planning, behavioral planning, or decision-making for autonomous vehicles or complex robotic systems.
- Expertise in C++ and Python: Ability to write production-grade, real-time C++ code and leverage Python for rapid prototyping and large-scale data analysis.
- Data-Centric Mindset: Demonstrated experience using large datasets to inform algorithmic changes, rather than relying solely on manual "if-else" logic.
- Strong Leadership Potential: Experience or high potential in technical leadership (TL/TLM), with a track record of guiding complex projects and mentoring peers.
- Deep Knowledge of Robotics Fundamentals: Familiarity with optimization-based planning, state lattices, A/D, POMDPs, or similar motion planning frameworks.
- Analytical Rigor: Strong background in building scalable metrics and evaluation frameworks to quantify autonomous behavior.
- Communication Skills: Excellent ability to build consensus across teams and translate complex technical challenges into actionable roadmaps.
- Hands-on Approach: Proactively identifies bottlenecks in the planning stack and "rolls up sleeves" to implement fixes in both simulation and on-vehicle environments.
INTRODUCTION
We are seeking a Senior Staff Motion Planning Engineer to architect and lead the execution of core autonomous capabilities. In this role, you will move away from isolated component development to own entire technical verticals—harmonizing algorithm design, closed-loop evaluation, and systems level thinking to deliver complete, production-grade driving behaviors.
Your work will sit at the intersection of classical robotics and data-driven intelligence, ensuring our vehicles operate with unparalleled safety and efficiency. If you are a seasoned engineer who thrives on solving high-dimensional problems, possesses a deep "data-first" mindset, and is ready to act as a technical pillar for the planning team, we want to hear from you.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Own End-to-End Technical Verticals: Lead the design, integration, and deployment of complete autonomous capabilities (e.g., complex urban intersection navigation, dense highway maneuvering) by tying together algorithmic logic, system constraints, and metric frameworks.
- Architect Holistic Evaluation Paradigms: Define and implement the overarching "eval" strategy for your technical verticals. Create sophisticated, multi-layered metrics that go beyond simple pass/fail to continuously quantify safety, comfort, and human-likeness across millions of simulation miles.
- Synthesize Data-Driven & Classical Approaches: Lead the transition from rigid, heuristic-based decision-making to scalable, data-informed frameworks. Utilize petabyte-scale fleet data to uncover systemic gaps and fundamentally evolve planning behavior.
- Cross-Functional Technical Orchestration: Serve as the primary technical authority aligning Product, Safety, Simulation, and Infrastructure teams to ensure your vertical capability can be seamlessly validated and deployed.
- Architectural Oversight: Navigate the tradeoffs between computational efficiency and plan quality, ensuring the motion planning stack remains performant in real-time environments.
- Foster Engineering Excellence: Promote a culture of clean, extendable C++ and Python code, ensuring the codebase is modular and collaborative.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Robotics, Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, or a related field.
- 10+ years of experience in motion planning, behavioral planning, or decision-making for autonomous vehicles or complex robotic systems.
- Expertise in C++ and Python: Ability to write production-grade, real-time C++ code and leverage Python for rapid prototyping and large-scale data analysis.
- Data-Centric Mindset: Demonstrated experience using large datasets to inform algorithmic changes, rather than relying solely on manual "if-else" logic.
- Strong Leadership Potential: Experience or high potential in technical leadership (TL/TLM), with a track record of guiding complex projects and mentoring peers.
- Deep Knowledge of Robotics Fundamentals: Familiarity with optimization-based planning, state lattices, A/D, POMDPs, or similar motion planning frameworks.
- Analytical Rigor: Strong background in building scalable metrics and evaluation frameworks to quantify autonomous behavior.
- Communication Skills: Excellent ability to build consensus across teams and translate complex technical challenges into actionable roadmaps.
- Hands-on Approach: Proactively identifies bottlenecks in the planning stack and "rolls up sleeves" to implement fixes in both simulation and on-vehicle environments.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship as a Senior Motion Designer
Align your portfolio to specialty occupation standards
PERM requires your role to demand a specific bachelor's degree field, not just creative talent. Structure your portfolio around projects that demonstrate specialized motion design systems work, not generalist output, so your employer can document the degree-job nexus USCIS requires.
Request a prevailing wage determination before accepting offers
Your employer must file a prevailing wage determination with DOL before submitting PERM. Check the OFLC Wage Search for your job title and metro area so you can negotiate an offer above that threshold upfront and avoid a compliance delay after signing.
Target studios with active PERM filing history
Not every creative employer has run a PERM case before. Focus your search on production companies, broadcast networks, and tech firms with in-house motion teams that have sponsored foreign workers previously. Use Migrate Mate to filter Senior Motion Designer roles by green card sponsorship history.
Understand how EB-2 and EB-3 routing affects your timeline
If your role requires only a bachelor's degree, expect EB-3 classification. EB-2 requires an advanced degree or equivalent. For most countries other than India and China, neither category has a meaningful backlog, so the distinction matters less for wait time than for documenting your qualifications correctly.
Prepare your credential evaluation before employers ask
Foreign design degrees outside a four-year U.S. equivalent require a credential evaluation for PERM. Commission a NACES-member evaluation early so your employer's attorney can confirm EB-2 or EB-3 eligibility during the job description stage, not after the offer letter is signed.
Anticipate the recruitment documentation your employer must complete
PERM obligates your employer to run specific DOL-mandated recruitment steps, including newspaper ads and internal job postings, before filing. Knowing this lets you coach new or hesitant employers through the process and set realistic timelines from offer through I-140 filing.
Green Card Senior Motion Designer: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Senior Motion Designer role typically qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 sponsorship?
Most Senior Motion Designer positions are filed under EB-3, which covers professionals with a U.S. bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in a relevant field such as graphic design, animation, or fine arts. EB-2 is available if the role genuinely requires an advanced degree or if your employer pursues a National Interest Waiver, though NIW self-petitions are rare in commercial creative work.
How does green card sponsorship differ from H-1B sponsorship for motion designers?
H-1B visa is a temporary status tied to one employer, subject to annual lottery selection, and must be renewed. PERM-based green card sponsorship permanently ties you to a job offer at the point of filing but leads to lawful permanent residency, with no cap lottery at the EB-3 level for most nationalities. The process takes longer, typically two to four years end to end, but the outcome is permanent status rather than a renewable nonimmigrant visa.
How do I find Senior Motion Designer jobs that include green card sponsorship?
Standard job postings rarely specify PERM willingness, so filtering by sponsorship history is more reliable than reading job descriptions. Migrate Mate lets you search Senior Motion Designer roles and filter specifically for employers with green card sponsorship history, which surfaces studios and companies that have already run PERM cases for creative roles.
What does the PERM process actually require from the employer for a motion design role?
Your employer must obtain a prevailing wage determination from DOL, run a prescribed recruitment campaign to document that no qualified U.S. worker applied, and then submit the ETA Form 9089 to OFLC. The job description must specify the actual duties and minimum degree requirements of the role. The entire PERM stage typically takes six to eighteen months depending on DOL processing times and whether an audit is triggered.
Can I change employers after my green card petition is filed?
Once your I-140 is approved and your priority date is current, you have porting rights under AC21 if you've held an approved I-140 for at least 180 days and your I-485 is pending. You can move to a new motion design role with a different employer in the same or similar occupational classification without losing your place in the green card queue. Consult an immigration attorney before making any employer change during this stage.