Principal Engineer, Data & ML Infrastructure

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.

Motional

We're making driverless vehicles a safe, reliable, and accessible reality.

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motional.com

501-1,000 employees

Software Development

Boston, Massachusetts

2020

Privately Held

79k LinkedIn followers

• We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Principal Engineer for our
• large-scale autonomous vehicle evaluation framework. The ideal candidate will
• have a strong background in cloud infrastructure, distributed systems and
• technical leadership, with experience in developing and deploying advanced
• large-scale orchestration frameworks to support simulation and evaluation
• workloads.
• At Motional, large-scale orchestration for simulation, evaluation, and data
• analysis plays a critical role in delivering our ML-centered autonomous driving
• vehicle. Our robo-taxi ML Models and software are developed by hundreds of
• engineers and deployed multiple times a day. The Ground Truth Regression team
• provides a large-scale perception analysis framework for validating all changes
• to perception that can impact the autonomous vehicle behavior.
• The GTRegression team validates the end impact of ML and software changes to the
• autonomous vehicle while those changes are in development, providing the tools
• for Root Cause Analysis, and safety consideration. We monitor for model errors,
• anomalies, rare objects & long-tail driving scenarios across thousands of
• driving hours. The team develops the full stack – AWS Kubernetes orchestration
• framework, ReSimulation, model metrics, regression reports, and deep dive
• analysis UI’s.
• warehousing frameworks.
• Maintain and scale a large-scale orchestration framework with a focus on
• reliability, fault tolerance, and cost efficiency.
• Own large-scale data analysis workflows that surface unexpected impacts of
• planned and unplanned changes to the ML models and software.
• Provide technical leadership by setting architectural direction, driving
• engineering best practices, and mentoring engineers through design and code
• reviews
• Manage project timelines, resources, and deliverables to ensure successful
• project execution.

Required

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related
• field.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.
• Proficiency in Go (Golang) and Python for building high-performance,
• concurrent microservices and platform tooling
• Deep hands-on experience building production infrastructure on public clouds
• (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and managing containerized workloads at scale using
• Kubernetes (K8s).
• Experience with large-scale data processing and distributed computing
• technologies.

Preferred

• Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related field.
• Knowledge of or hands-on experience with OLAP databases (e.g., ClickHouse)
• for data analysis.
• Experience with machine learning in the autonomous driving domain.
• Hands-on experience architecting large-scale orchestration platforms that run
• multi-thousand GPU/CPU workloads reliably and cost-efficiently.
• Experience in machine learning, data mining, and statistical analysis.
• compensation factors including but not limited to specific skills, experience
• and expertise, role location, certifications, licenses, and business needs. The
• estimated compensation range listed in this job posting reflects base salary
• only. This role may include additional forms of compensation such as a bonus or
• company equity. The recruiter assigned to this role can share more information
• about the specific compensation and benefit details associated with this role
• during the hiring process.
• Candidates for certain positions are eligible to participate in Motional’s
• benefits program. Motional’s benefits include but are not limited to medical,
• dental, vision, 401k with a company match, health saving accounts, life
• insurance, pet insurance, and more.

• Motional is a driverless technology company making autonomous vehicles a safe,
• reliable, and accessible reality. We’re driven by something more.
• Our journey is always people first.
• We aren't just developing driverless cars; we're creating safer roadways, more
• equitable transportation options, and making our communities better places to
• live, work, and connect. Our team is made up of engineers, researchers,
• innovators, dreamers and doers, who are creating a technology with the potential
• to transform the way we move.
• Higher purpose, greater impact.
• We’re creating first-of-its-kind technology that will transform transportation.
• To do so successfully, we must design for everyone in our cities and on our
• roads. We believe in building a great place to work through a progressive,
• global culture that is diverse, inclusive, and ensures people feel valued at
• every level of the organization. Diversity helps us to see the world
• differently; it’s not only good for our business, it’s the right thing to do.
• Scale up, not starting up.
• Our team is behind some of the industry's largest leaps forward, including the
• first fully-autonomous cross-country drive in the U.S, the launch of the world's
• first robotaxi pilot, and operation of the world's longest-standing public
• robotaxi fleet. We’re driven to scale; we’re moving towards commercialization of
• our technology, and we need team members who are ready to embrace change and
• challenges.
• Formed as a joint venture between Hyundai Motor Group and Aptiv, Motional is
• fundamentally changing how people move through their lives. Headquartered in
• Boston, Motional has operations in the U.S and Asia. For more information,
• visit  www.Motional.com
• [https://www.linkedin.com/company/67123512/], Instagram
• [https://www.instagram.com/motionaldrive/] and YouTube
• Motional AD Inc. is an EOE. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating
• an inclusive environment for all employees. To comply with Federal Law, we