Base Salary
$149k - $199k/yr
Responsibilities
- Investigate and diagnose undesirable autonomous-vehicle behaviors across simulation, hardware-in-the-loop, and on-road operations.
- Debug emergent behaviors across perception, prediction, localization, planning, controls, and vehicle systems.
- Analyze system logs, telemetry, and software outputs using Python.
- Develop automated diagnostic workflows and internal tooling using Python and Spaceship.
- Build interactive performance dashboards using Python frameworks and business-intelligence tools such as Looker.
- Identify recurring behaviors, regressions, and system-level performance issues and categorize them into failure modes.
- Synthesize technical findings into clear summaries supporting engineering decisions, release narratives, cross-functional communication, and executive reporting.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, such as Computer Science, Electrical, Systems, or Robotics, or equivalent work experience; a Master’s degree is a strong plus.
- 5+ years of professional software or systems engineering experience with safety-critical, complex systems such as autonomous vehicles, robotics, medical devices, or aerospace.
- Thorough understanding of robotics systems, including sensors, actuators, and software autonomy stacks.
- Strong proficiency in Python for data analysis and scripting, modern software development principles, and data visualization using Python frameworks.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, root-cause analysis, data-quality, and rigorous-testing skills.
- Proficiency with Git and standard version-control workflows.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively and communicate complex technical findings clearly to cross-functional and executive stakeholders.
- Experience with AV-specific diagnostic and visualization tools such as Planner Analyzer is a bonus.
- Knowledge of statistical analysis and machine-learning techniques relevant to performance evaluation is a bonus.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, 401(k) with company match, health savings accounts, life insurance, pet insurance, and other benefits.
- Hybrid role based in the Boston or Las Vegas office with required in-office days each week.
- Travel greater than 20%, including 1–2 weeks each quarter to testing sites, mostly in Las Vegas and elsewhere domestically as needed.
About Motional
Motional is an autonomous vehicle technology company on a mission to make driverless vehicles a safe, reliable, and accessible reality. The company formed in 2020 and is majority-owned by Hyundai Motor Group, one of the world’s largest vehicle manufacturers. Motional has extensive experience in commercial robotaxi operations, with service currently available on the Uber network in Las Vegas and plans for driverless operations by the end of 2026. Headquartered in Boston, Motional has operations in the U.S. and Singapore. To explore our current openings, please visit our careers page at motional.com/careers. Please be alert for job recruitment scams, including fraudulent job postings, offers, and communications by individuals or entities purporting to be affiliated with Motional. All of our third party job postings link back to our motional.com/careers page. Need assistance? If you have questions or want to report suspicious activity, send us a direct message - we’re here to help.