Base Salary
$172k - $229k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define the team’s long-term technical roadmap and prioritize deliverables that reduce autonomous vehicle deployment risk.
- Design and implement pipelines that extract on-road and simulated events and evaluate autonomous vehicle performance.
- Develop Python frameworks, metrics software, and AI-powered tools to calculate, aggregate, and visualize performance data.
- Collaborate with systems, software, AI, controls, simulation, validation, perception, prediction, and planning teams.
- Improve codebase reliability and ensure the accuracy, integrity, and quality of performance-evaluation data.
- Document metrics and analysis tools, lead design and architecture reviews, and share engineering best practices.
- Mentor senior engineers and team members through technical guidance, documentation, and internal technology talks.
- Evaluate and integrate technologies and methodologies relevant to autonomous vehicles and software engineering.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field; a master’s degree is a plus.
- Expert-level Python proficiency and strong knowledge of modern software development principles and practices.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills focused on complex system performance evaluation and data analysis.
- Proficiency with Git and standard version control workflows.
- Strong communication, collaboration, independence, attention to detail, and commitment to data quality and rigorous testing.
- Experience working in an agile, continuous integration/continuous delivery environment.
- Preferred experience includes autonomous vehicle or robotics software, perception, prediction, planning, controls, Python data analysis and visualization tools, statistical analysis, and machine learning techniques.
Benefits
- Benefits may include medical, dental, vision, 401(k) with company match, health savings accounts, life insurance, pet insurance, and additional programs.
- The role requires more than 20% travel, typically 1–2 weeks per quarter to testing sites, primarily in Las Vegas and other domestic locations.
- The position may involve sitting, standing, walking, handling objects, and occasionally lifting up to 50 pounds; the work environment includes exposure to mechanical and computer parts and occasional fumes or airborne particles.
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.