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.
- Write and maintain software and tooling for network routing, monitoring, fault detection, diagnostics, and failover handling.
- Evaluate and select network hardware components in partnership with hardware, platform, and autonomy software teams.
- Establish network performance budgets, QoS policies, traffic isolation strategies, and latency and bandwidth constraints.
- Build telemetry and monitoring tools for network health, bandwidth utilization, packet drops, and real-time communication performance.
- Diagnose and resolve system-level networking issues involving communication loss, packet drops, latency jitter, and hardware controller errors.
- Define maintenance, provisioning, and OTA firmware update strategies for onboard network switches and interface hardware.
- Contribute to technical roadmaps for next-generation onboard networking and communications infrastructure.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering background with the ability to write, debug, and maintain production code.
- Deep understanding of embedded network architectures, network topology design, and system-level communication flows.
- Hands-on experience with Ethernet, TCP/IP, UDP, CAN/CAN-FD, or similar 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.
- Ability to build software tools for network telemetry, packet inspection, and automated system diagnostics.
- Experience collaborating with hardware, embedded Linux, system integration, and application engineering teams.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for explaining complex network architecture decisions.
- Preferred experience with modern C++ in embedded Linux or automotive software environments; automotive networking architectures and protocols such as AUTOSAR Classic/Adaptive, DDS, and ROS/ROS2; automotive switch hardware, PHYs, and platforms such as Broadcom, Marvell, or NVIDIA DRIVE AGX; HIL testing, network simulation, or bus stress testing; Linux networking internals, socket programming, network device drivers, or eBPF monitoring; automotive cybersecurity concepts including ISO/SAE 21434, SecOC, MACsec, and onboard firewalls; and Bazel.
Benefits
- Hybrid work from the Pittsburgh, Boston, or Las Vegas office, with in-office days required each week for hands-on system work and collaboration.
- Benefits may include medical, dental, vision, 401k with company match, health savings accounts, life insurance, pet insurance, and other benefits.
- The role may include additional bonus or company equity compensation.
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.