Base Salary
$149k - $199k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and evolve physical and logical onboard vehicle network topologies for current and next-generation autonomous vehicles.
- Define and implement network protocol stacks, communication standards, and messaging layers across compute nodes, sensors, microcontrollers, and actuators.
- Develop and maintain software and tooling for routing, monitoring, fault detection, diagnostics, failover handling, telemetry, packet inspection, and network health analysis.
- Establish performance budgets, QoS policies, traffic prioritization, network segmentation, latency constraints, and bandwidth requirements.
- Diagnose system-level networking issues including communication loss, packet drops, latency jitter, and hardware controller errors.
- Define provisioning, maintenance, and OTA firmware update strategies for onboard network switches and interface hardware.
- Collaborate with hardware, embedded Linux, platform, autonomy, application engineering, and system integration teams, and contribute to technical roadmaps.
Requirements
- Production software engineering experience, including the ability to write, debug, and maintain code.
- Deep understanding of embedded network architectures, topology design, and system-level communication flows.
- Hands-on experience with Ethernet, TCP/IP, UDP, CAN, and CAN-FD or comparable networking protocols and standards.
- Proficiency in a modern programming language; C++ is preferred.
- Experience designing network security policies, traffic shaping and prioritization, QoS, and logical network isolation.
- Experience building software tools for network telemetry, packet inspection, and automated system diagnostics.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration, written communication, and verbal communication skills.
- Preferred experience includes modern C++ in embedded Linux or automotive environments; AUTOSAR Classic/Adaptive, DDS, ROS/ROS2; automotive switch hardware, PHYs, and NVIDIA DRIVE AGX; HIL testing, network simulation, or bus stress testing; Linux networking internals, socket programming, network device drivers, or eBPF; ISO/SAE 21434, SecOC, MACsec, or onboard firewalls; and Bazel.
Benefits
- Benefits may include medical, dental, vision, 401k with company match, health savings accounts, life insurance, pet insurance, and other benefits.
- Hybrid work arrangement from the Pittsburgh, Boston, or Las Vegas office with in-office days required each week.
- Base salary range is $149,000—$198,500 USD; additional bonus or company equity may be available.
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.