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Motional

Robot type
Autonomous Vehicle
Location
BostonMassachusettsUSA
Job type
Artificial Intelligence
Posted
Aug 15, 2025
Salary
$200,000–$275,000 a year
Full-time

Principal Engineer, Data & ML Infrastructure

Job description

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Principal Engineer, Technical Lead to lead 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 data analysis and large scale orchestration frameworks.

At Motional, large scale orchestration for 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 developers and deployed multiple times a day – The Ground Truth Regression team provides the large scale perception…

Job responsibilities

  • Lead a team of engineers with a diverse skill set to deliver critical software and infrastructure supporting the development of the autonomous vehicle ML models and software.
  • Drive innovation by researching and developing new large scale data warehousing and analysis.
  • Own large-scale data analysis workflows that surface unexpected impacts of planned and unplanned changes to the ML models and software.
  • Work with annotation specialists to build high-quality evaluation datasets.
  • Provide statistical depth on model performance & generalization through rigorous error and change analysis.
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to the team, fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.
  • Manage project timelines, resources, and deliverables to ensure successful project execution.

Job requirements

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field.
  • Excellent leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills.
  • Proven record leading a small diverse dedicated team supporting a large user base.
  • Experience in machine learning, data mining, and statistical analysis.
  • Proficiency in Go (Golang), Python, or C++ 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.

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