[Hiring] Principal Engineer @Motional
Mar 28, 2025 - Motional is hiring a remote Principal Engineer. 💸 Salary: $136,500 - $266,500 usd. 📍Location: USA.
Role Description
On our Behaviors team, you have the opportunity to work with world-class ML engineers and research scientists whose mission is to make self-driving vehicles a reality and to create positive social impact. Our team works on the tech stack responsible for perceiving the dynamic scenarios and predicting the future behavior of agents around our robo-taxi. We are looking for engineers who are passionate about Level 5 autonomous driving, excited by intellectual challenges, and interested in pursuing career growth with a fast-growing company. This opportunity can support remote work within the United States, with occasional travel.
You drive project-level impact to make our autonomous vehicles operate at superhuman capabilities for comfortable, safe driving. Daily, you will:
- Define and influence the direction of the team, organization, and/or department.
- Advise leaders on technology problems and solutions.
- Connect and drive business impact through technology solutions.
- Formulate problems, architect solutions, and design processes.
- Prototype, evaluate, implement, and iterate on solutions.
- Pioneer research into state of the art solutions and systems for autonomous vehicles.
- Productionize and deploy solutions onto autonomous vehicle fleets.
- Mentor and grow junior and experienced engineers and researchers.
- Help create and reinforce a culture of inclusion, innovation, and excellence.
Qualifications
- BA, Masters or PhD in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Physics or a related field; or equivalent industry experience.
- In-depth understanding of common Machine Learning, Deep Learning algorithms, or ML Planning.
- Experience designing, training, and analyzing neural networks for at least one of the following applications: object detection, semantic/instance segmentation, visual classification, motion/gesture recognition, sensor fusion, multitask learning, motion prediction, and/or multi-object tracking.
- Advanced knowledge of software engineering principles including software design, source control management, build processes, code reviews, testing methods.
- Fluency in Python, including standard scientific computing libraries and Python bindings development experience.
- Experience with PyTorch or other deep learning frameworks.
- Experience working with large data sets and deriving insights from data.
- Effectiveness at leading and executing large, complex technical initiatives.
- Strong track record of tackling ambiguous problems, creating clarity from it, and driving it to successful outcomes.
Requirements
- Proven track record of publications in relevant conferences (CVPR, ICML, NeurIPS, ICCV, ICL, etc.).
- PhD in machine learning, computer vision, or robotics vision.
- Experience working on autonomous vehicles, or related fields.
- Experience in deploying models into real-world environments.
- Strong programming skills in C++ and/or CUDA programming.
Benefits
- 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.
Salary Range
$136,500 — $266,500 USD
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