Base Salary
$149k - $199k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build low-overhead observability infrastructure for resource usage, latency, scheduling behavior, and system health.
- Develop metrics, tracing, profiling, and analysis tools to identify performance contention and explain system behavior.
- Improve real-time and post-event root-cause analysis across CPU, memory, storage, networking, and other shared resources.
- Partner with autonomy and platform teams to investigate crashes, latency spikes, missed deadlines, resource exhaustion, and performance regressions.
- Analyze interactions among applications, operating systems, kernels, and hardware on embedded Linux compute platforms.
- Create durable improvements such as tooling, alerts, dashboards, performance requirements, and architectural changes.
- Define performance benchmarks and regression tests for onboard systems.
- Evaluate the performance impact of new software, hardware, and system configurations.
- Communicate findings and actionable recommendations to cross-functional engineering teams.
- Contribute to technical roadmaps for onboard observability and system performance.
Requirements
- Strong experience debugging and optimizing Linux system performance.
- Deep understanding of process scheduling, memory management, filesystems, networking, and inter-process communication.
- Experience diagnosing resource contention, latency, crashes, or throughput problems in complex production systems.
- Experience with Linux performance and tracing tools such as perf, ftrace, eBPF/BPF, BCC, bpftrace, flame graphs, or equivalent technologies.
- Proficiency in a systems programming language such as C or C++.
- Experience using Python, shell scripting, or similar languages for automation and data analysis.
- Ability to analyze large volumes of system telemetry and distinguish root causes from symptoms.
- Ability to collaborate across application, infrastructure, and hardware teams.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Embedded Linux or automotive compute platform experience is a bonus.
- Real-time or latency-sensitive systems experience is a bonus.
- Linux kernel, scheduler, device driver, or kernel instrumentation experience is a bonus.
- Observability platform, telemetry pipeline, or fleet-scale performance analysis experience is a bonus.
- Experience with cgroups, namespaces, containers, and resource isolation is a bonus.
- Experience analyzing CPUs, GPUs, and hardware accelerators is a bonus.
- High-throughput networking, storage, data logging, or data offload experience is a bonus.
- Experience establishing performance budgets, service-level objectives, or automated regression detection is a bonus.
- NVIDIA DRIVE AGX or DriveOS experience is a bonus.
- Familiarity with Bazel and large-scale C++ codebases is a bonus.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement from the Pittsburgh office with in-office days each week
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) with company match
- Health savings accounts
- Life insurance
- Pet insurance
- Additional benefits and possible 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.