What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Software Engineer - Autonomy Integrations position at Motional and Careers?
Mission Summary:
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to develop and deliver automated workflows, intelligent tooling and insightful analytics that enables our autonomy stack to scale. You will play a pivotal role in transforming massive amounts of data into actionable engineering insights, ensuring our software releases are robust, validated, and ready for the road.
What you'll be doing:
- Develop Intelligent Tooling: You will design and implement sophisticated automation to categorize and explain complex system behaviors by leveraging advanced data modeling to accelerate solutions.
- Drive Analytics: You'll lead the creation of high-impact performance visualization tools that translate raw metrics into clear, actionable insights regarding on-road performance.
- Streamline Release Engineering: Your expertise will help the team evolve our release processes, moving toward a highly automated deployment framework that maintains quality while improving efficiency
- Advance Simulation Capabilities: You'll have the opportunity to enhance our virtual testing ecosystems, ensuring our simulation suites provide the high fidelity feedback necessary to properly understand the release.
- Collaborate at Scale: Work within a large, multi-disciplinary codebase to ensure seamless integration between planning, motion, and controls teams.
What we're looking for:
- Extensive experience building production-grade applications, tools, and pipelines using Python.
- Comfortable navigating and contributing to large, complex codebases where modularity and documentation are key.
- Proven track record of delivering software in a production environment, including familiarity with CI/CD, version control at scale, and rigorous release cycles.
- Curious about data and possess the ability to extract meaningful patterns from noisy, high-dimensional datasets.
- Passionate about a driverless future and understand the high stakes of deploying software that interacts with the physical world.
Bonus Points(not required):
- Experience with C in a Linux environment.
- Familiarity with Machine Learning frameworks or Large Language Model (LLM) integration.
- Background in robotics middleware (ROS, DDS) or autonomous systems.
We encourage a hybrid schedule with in-office time at one of our locations in Boston, Pittsburgh, or Las Vegas to support collaboration, or this role can be fully remote.
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 and follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram 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 participate in E-Verify. All newly-hired employees are queried through this electronic system established by the DHS and the SSA to verify their identity and employment eligibility.
Salary : $149,000 - $198,500