About The Role

Our software team is growing and we are looking for a talented engineer to join our agile, world-class team. In this role you will develop autonomous behaviors for humanoid robots to interact with the world around it. You will work closely with state estimation, navigation, and controls teams to execute behaviors aimed at solving challenging problems in real-world deployments.

About The Work

• Design, implement, test, and deploy autonomous behaviors for humanoid robots
• Prototype autonomous behaviors in simulation and execute on robot hardware
• Develop algorithms robust to environmental uncertainty and imperfect state estimation
• Implement performance tests for evaluating the reliability of robot behaviors
• Contribute to the software architecture and design of the autonomy stack
• Collaborate with members of the autonomy teams to solve complex cross functional problems
• Engineer high quality software that is well tested, reliable and maintainable

About You

• Industry experience deploying mobile manipulation robots in real world applications
• Experience developing manipulation algorithms on high-DOF robots
• Familiarity with behavior trees, finite state machines, or similar behavior management and execution systems
• Experience with perception and scene understanding especially as it pertains to manipulation
• Strong robotics fundamentals, including kinematics, dynamics, sensing, and control
• Experience using simulation tools such as Isaac Sim / Mujoco / Drake / gazebo or similar
• Experience with automated testing for simulation
• Strong debugging skills; the ability to identify and diagnose complex issues that arise within robotics
• Strong software experience in modern C++ and Python

Bonus Qualifications

• Experience working with humanoid (or similar) robots
• Experience leveraging machine learning to improve grasp planning and object manipulation
• Experience in classical robotics motion planning and trajectory optimization algorithms
• MS or Ph.D. in robotics, computer science, or related field or have equivalent industry experience
• Publications in your field (RSS, ICRA, IROS preferred)

We are open to remote candidates, but a prefer this role to be hybrid position based out of one of our Salem, Pittsburgh, or Fremont offices.  

The final salary offered to a successful candidate will be dependent on several factors that may include but are not limited to: market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. This range may change based on geographical location and may be modified in the future.

Position Overview

Woolpert is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join our dynamic Atlas Labs team supporting our Geospatial sector. This position reports to the Director of Product and AI. Atlas Labs oversees technology development for Woolpert’s Geospatial sector, including various types of AI model development, R&D, software infrastructure, and user-facing products.

We are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position.  Applicants must already possess work authorization in the country the job is located.

What You Will Do:

• Contribute to the planning, research, design, architecture, development, and testing of Atlas Labs software features. You’ll write code daily, definitely in Python and possibly in C++ or JavaScript.
• Work as part of a cross-functional Scrum team with domain experts in AI/ML, Geospatial Data, Software Engineering, and GIS.
• Collaborate with internal and external users to ensure the correctness, quality, and availability of Atlas Labs software products.

What You Will Bring:

• Meaningful employment experience working on commercial software products
• Experience writing production code in Python, preferably dealing with large datasets
• Demonstrated experience or academic output in a relevant domain:
• Geospatial Data Processing
• Computer Vision
• AI & Machine Learning
• LiDAR
• Robotics/Self-Driving/Autonomy
• General familiarity with relevant technologies:
• Linux, Docker, and GitHub
• AI/ML frameworks (Tensorflow, Pytorch)
• Cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, Google)

Nice to Have:

• Familiarity with GIS applications like ESRI, QGIS, Google Earth
• Familiarity with orchestration frameworks like Kubernetes, AirFlow, MLFlow
• Programming experience in C++ or JavaScript
• Experience with Agile processes like Scrum

Benefits You Will Love

Certified as a Great Place to Work, Woolpert is one of the fastest-growing architecture, engineering, and geospatial companies in the world. With over 75 offices and countless projects around the globe, you’ll work on meaningful assignments that improve quality of life around the world. In addition to offering competitive pay, we provide employees with a robust set of unique benefits, including:

• Freedom to Work program: Set your own schedule and location (as appropriate).
• Principal program: Earn the opportunity to become an owner of the firm.
• Flexible paid time off/vacation: Take time off when it makes sense for you and your team.
• Career development: Explore a wide range of learning and growth opportunities within and across industries.
• Health, life, vision, and dental insurance: Cover all your medical bases.
• Paid sick time, retirement plan, fitness reimbursement, pet insurance, identity protection, technology stipend, employee assistance program, and more!

#LI-Hybrid

Company Name: Hellbender Inc.

Job Title: Robotics Engineering Internship

Department: Engineering

Report to: Engineering Manager 

Who we are:

Hellbender Inc. is a Pennsylvania Benefit Corporation who partners with innovators to mature their Artificial Intelligence enabled computing sensors and produce their solutions onshore at prototype to high volumes.

Hellbender is intentionally forming an inclusive work environment and is committed to uplifting the historically marginalized identities including veterans, women, trans and non-white races in our community and industry.        

Job Summary: 

At Hellbender, you will have the opportunity and responsibility to generate innovative solutions
to address unique issues on a variety of real world problems. As an intern, you will have the
same autonomy as our junior engineers and the mentorship of our senior staff. Our program is
designed to teach you the full product development life cycle and the work will take you back
and forth from the white board to the automated manufacturing line. The coding will consist of
Real-Time/Object Oriented C, C++, and Python development in an embedded Linux
environment.

Eligibility Requirements
An ideal candidate would have prior internship experience at a manufacturing or engineering
based organization. We accept college masters and PhD level students.

Please note that this is a full time, on-site position.

• 3.0 or higher cumulative GPA preferred
• Enrolled in an accredited U.S. college or university
• Classification as a graduate student (master’s or doctoral level)
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S.
• Must be willing to work onsite

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Working on embedded platform software in a Linux-based environment
• Writing event-driven and asynchronous applications primarily in C, C++ and Python
• Writing software that communicates with and controls other devices over interfaces
  including CAN, UART, I2C, SPI and others
• Using oscilloscopes, protocol analyzers, multimeters, and other tools for electronic
  diagnostics
• Define requirements for specific functionality and coordinate with hardware, software
  manufacturing teams
• Demonstrate proficiency in data analysis, programming, and software engineering

Work Location: UPARC Pittsburgh

Opportunity for advancement: 

Hellbender is a growing business and follows a policy that prioritizes internal promotions. As new positions are created new opportunities for advancement will be created as well.

Mission Summary:

Motional’s onboard autonomous driving system team works at the intersection of software engineering, machine learning, sensors, and hardware compute platforms to evolve Motional’s next-generation on-board autonomous driving system. As part of this team, the High Performance Compute Platform team is responsible for Motional’s current and next-generation onboard autonomous driving system. If you are a software engineer and love the idea of working on embedded AI hardware and software compute systems to create the next generation of autonomous vehicles, we would love to talk with you. We are hiring in a range of levels, from graduate engineers to Staff engineers.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Design and develop infrastructure software on various hardware platforms for applications such as vision processing, radar systems, safety monitoring, etc., to be run on self-driving vehicles.
• Design test harnesses for embedded software components and full systems
• Provide technical mentorship to engineers.
• Proactively work with cross-functional engineering teams to solve complex and interesting problems.
  
  

What We're Looking For:

• Experience with creating detailed requirements from use cases.
• Ability to lead a technical initiative, including breaking down work and guiding other engineers through execution.
• Experience writing software for embedded platforms in C and C++.
• Experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD).
• Experience working on embedded Linux / RTOSs.
• Experience working with networks (Ethernet, CAN etc.) and the common networking protocols.
• Experience with debugging on embedded platforms.
• Experience writing software in Python and experience doing automation with shell scripting.
• Experience working with ARM Cortex MCUs or Microprocessors.
  
  

Bonus Points (not required):

• Experience working with large data pipelines, and platforms that require deterministic execution.
• Experience using inter-system communication protocols such as I2C and SPI
• Experience deploying Machine Learning models.
• Experience working with GPUs.
• Experience working directly with the Linux kernel or Device Drivers.
• Experience with Simulation and Code Generation, and knowing when their use is appropriate.
• Experience working with Bazel.
• Experience integrating various sensors, including Cameras, IMUs, Radars, LIDARs.
• Experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow, ONNX, and/or other ML frameworks. 
  
  

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.

Mission Summary:

Motional’s onboard autonomous driving system team works at the intersection of software engineering, machine learning, sensors, and hardware compute platforms to evolve Motional’s next-generation on-board autonomous driving system. As part of this team, the High Performance Compute Platform team is responsible for Motional’s current and next-generation onboard autonomous driving system. If you are a software engineer and love the idea of working on embedded AI hardware and software compute systems to create the next generation of autonomous vehicles, we would love to talk with you. We are hiring in a range of levels, from graduate engineers to Staff engineers.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Design and develop infrastructure software on various hardware platforms for applications such as vision processing, radar systems, safety monitoring, etc., to be run on self-driving vehicles.
• Design test harnesses for embedded software components and full systems
• Provide technical mentorship to engineers.
• Proactively work with cross-functional engineering teams to solve complex and interesting problems.
  
  

What We're Looking For:

• Experience with creating detailed requirements from use cases.
• Ability to lead a technical initiative, including breaking down work and guiding other engineers through execution.
• Experience writing software for embedded platforms in C and C++.
• Experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD).
• Experience working on embedded Linux / RTOSs.
• Experience working with networks (Ethernet, CAN etc.) and the common networking protocols.
• Experience with debugging on embedded platforms.
• Experience writing software in Python and experience doing automation with shell scripting.
• Experience working with ARM Cortex MCUs or Microprocessors.
  
  

Bonus Points (not required):

• Experience working with large data pipelines, and platforms that require deterministic execution.
• Experience using inter-system communication protocols such as I2C and SPI
• Experience deploying Machine Learning models.
• Experience working with GPUs.
• Experience working directly with the Linux kernel or Device Drivers.
• Experience with Simulation and Code Generation, and knowing when their use is appropriate.
• Experience working with Bazel.
• Experience integrating various sensors, including Cameras, IMUs, Radars, LIDARs.
• Experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow, ONNX, and/or other ML frameworks. 
  
  

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.

Mission Summary:

Motional’s onboard autonomous driving system team works at the intersection of software engineering, machine learning, sensors, and hardware compute platforms to evolve Motional’s next-generation on-board autonomous driving system. As part of this team, the High Performance Compute Platform team is responsible for Motional’s current and next-generation onboard autonomous driving system. If you are a software engineer and love the idea of working on embedded AI hardware and software compute systems to create the next generation of autonomous vehicles, we would love to talk with you. We are hiring in a range of levels, from graduate engineers to Staff engineers.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Design and develop infrastructure software on various hardware platforms for applications such as vision processing, radar systems, safety monitoring, etc., to be run on self-driving vehicles.
• Design test harnesses for embedded software components and full systems
• Provide technical mentorship to engineers.
• Proactively work with cross-functional engineering teams to solve complex and interesting problems.
  
  

What We're Looking For:

• Experience with creating detailed requirements from use cases.
• Ability to lead a technical initiative, including breaking down work and guiding other engineers through execution.
• Experience writing software for embedded platforms in C and C++.
• Experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD).
• Experience working on embedded Linux / RTOSs.
• Experience working with networks (Ethernet, CAN etc.) and the common networking protocols.
• Experience with debugging on embedded platforms.
• Experience writing software in Python and experience doing automation with shell scripting.
• Experience working with ARM Cortex MCUs or Microprocessors.
  
  

Bonus Points (not required):

• Experience working with large data pipelines, and platforms that require deterministic execution.
• Experience using inter-system communication protocols such as I2C and SPI
• Experience deploying Machine Learning models.
• Experience working with GPUs.
• Experience working directly with the Linux kernel or Device Drivers.
• Experience with Simulation and Code Generation, and knowing when their use is appropriate.
• Experience working with Bazel.
• Experience integrating various sensors, including Cameras, IMUs, Radars, LIDARs.
• Experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow, ONNX, and/or other ML frameworks. 
  
  

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’s Pittsburgh office is located in the new Hazelwood Green development, a culmination of the city’s goal of restoring an economic driver to the neighborhood in a thoughtful, inclusive, and sustainable way. With views along the Monongahela river, the Pittsburgh office is in the heart of this new state of the art development.

Mission Summary:

• Lead the design, development, and integration of complex electrical and mechanical systems for autonomous vehicles, ensuring they meet rigorous performance, safety, and reliability standards.
• Architect, analyze, and optimize vehicle electrical and networking systems (Automotive Ethernet, CAN) to enhance data throughput, fault tolerance, and system scalability.
• Spearhead the diagnosis and resolution of complex, intermittent system failures using advanced debugging tools (e.g., high-speed oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, logic analyzers) and sophisticated PC-based diagnostic and simulation software.
• Mentor junior engineers on best practices for system triage, troubleshooting, repair, and validation.
• Develop and execute comprehensive integration test plans for new vehicle features and subsystems, coordinating efforts across multiple engineering disciplines and external partners.
• Author and maintain high-level technical documentation for system architectures, design requirements, and validation procedures.
  
  

What we're looking for:

• Expert-level knowledge of vehicle electrical and networking systems (CAN, LIN, Ethernet, etc.) with a deep understanding of communication protocols and their limitations.
• Proven track record of success in root-cause analysis, systematic issue isolation, and resolution for complex hardware-software integration problems.
• Extensive experience with advanced Linux terminal troubleshooting, including scripting and low-level system diagnostics.
• Deep understanding of computer system architecture, including embedded systems, processing units, and networking hardware.
• Demonstrated ability to author and maintain highly technical documentation, including design specifications, test reports, and system validation plans.
• Exceptional problem-solving skills and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively lead cross-functional teams and collaborate with external suppliers and partners.
• Extensive experience with various sensors, including cameras, LiDAR, and RADAR, and an understanding of their integration challenges.
• Master's degree or equivalent in Electrical, Mechanical, or Systems Engineering, or 10+ years of relevant experience in a senior-level role.
  
  

Preferred, but not required:

• Professional proficiency in programming languages such as Python or C++ for scripting, automation, and data analysis.
• Experience with advanced issue-tracking and project management platforms (e.g., JIRA, Polarion, Confluence), including dashboard creation and workflow optimization.
• Working knowledge of functional safety standards (e.g., ISO 26262) and their application in autonomous systems.

This role is hybrid from our Pittsburgh office. It requires in-office days each week.

About the Role

We are looking for a Staff Robotics Software Engineer (Tech Lead) to lead the design and development of robot behaviors that expand and generalize our humanoid robot’s capabilities. In this role, you will own behavior design end-to-end, from high-level task logic and system design down to on-robot validation and deployment. You will work at the intersection of behavior planning, motion planning, object perception, and manipulation, developing new autonomy capabilities and pushing the robot into new classes of tasks. We are looking for a hands-on technical leader who can set technical direction and wants to stay close to the robot: writing code, running experiments, debugging logs, working with hardware, and mentoring other engineers by building alongside them.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the design, implementation, and validation of complex humanoid robot behaviors.
• Lead behavior planning and execution design, including task decomposition, control flow, recovery, and failure handling.
• Build new autonomy capabilities that expand what the robot can reliably do in the real world.
• Develop and evaluate manipulation strategies for new tasks, objects, workflows, and customer environments.
• Integrate robot behaviors with motion planning, controls, object perception, estimation, and hardware systems.
• Train, evaluate, and integrate learned policies into hybrid learned/classical execution workflows.
• Integrate new end effectors, tools, sensors, and other hardware capabilities into the behavior stack.
• Debug complex system-level failures using logs, replay, metrics, simulation, and on-robot experimentation.
• Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, debugging, and hands-on technical guidance.
• Help set technical direction and best practices for building robust, composable, reusable, and generalizable robot behaviors.

About You

• B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Robotics, Computer Science, or a related engineering field.
• 8+ years of professional experience developing robotics software, autonomy systems, robot behaviors, or related real-world robotic capabilities.
• Demonstrated experience as a tech lead or senior technical owner for complex robotics projects.
• Proficient in Python and C++, and comfortable contributing to large, long-lived codebases.
• Experience with behavior trees, state machines, task planners, hierarchical planning, or similar behavior-planning frameworks.
• Strong system-level understanding of how motion planning, object perception, controls, estimation, and hardware interact on real robots.
• Experience working with complex algorithms and data pipelines, with an ability to optimize for performance, robustness, and scalability.
• Experience collaborating closely with perception, planning, controls, hardware, product, or field teams.
• Strong ownership mindset with a focus on robustness, generalization, and real-world reliability.

Bonus Qualifications

• Experience developing manipulation strategies for complex or unstructured environments.
• Experience with learned robot skills, including imitation learning, reinforcement learning, or hybrid learned/classical execution strategies.
• Experience deploying and supporting autonomous robots in real customer environments.

This is a hybrid role based out of one of our Salem, OR, Pittsburgh, PA, or Fremont, CA offices.

The final salary offered to a successful candidate will be dependent on several factors that may include but are not limited to: market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. This range may change based on geographical location and may be modified in the future.

About the Role

We are looking for a Staff Robotics Software Engineer to join our Skills team, focusing on object perception for robot manipulation. This technical leadership role is deeply rooted in production robotics, where reliability, performance, and system behavior matter most. You will focus on integrating, adapting, and operationalizing perception systems within a full robotic stack, ensuring they perform robustly on real hardware in real environments.

In this high-impact role, you will act as a key decision-maker within the perception and skills stack, helping define system architecture, design principles, and technical direction across how perception connects to planning, control, and execution. You will shape how these systems come together end-to-end, influencing both current execution performance and the long-term scalability of the platform.

You will also work closely with AI/ML teams, evaluating and incorporating both learned and classical approaches, while driving the engineering decisions that turn models and algorithms into reliable, production-grade robot behavior.

About the Work

• Own object perception performance on the robot, from sensors through runtime behavior integration
• Lead the design, implementation, and deployment of perception pipelines for manipulation, including object pose estimation, depth reasoning, and scene understanding
• Work hands-on with real robots to debug, tune, and harden perception systems under real-world variability
• Collaborate with AI/ML teams to evaluate, integrate, train, and fine-tune perception models
• Explore and integrate off-the-shelf perception solutions and libraries where they meet performance and reliability needs
• Combine learned models with classical CV, geometry, and task structure to meet system-level requirements
• Define interfaces and contracts between perception, behaviors, and task planning to ensure reliable execution
• Build tools and workflows to evaluate perception performance across datasets, simulation, and hardware
• Help set technical direction and best practices for building robust, production-grade perception systems that are reliable, debuggable, and scalable in real-world robotic environments

About You

• B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Robotics, Computer Science, or a related engineering field
• 8+ years of professional experience building object perception systems for real robotic platforms
• Demonstrated experience as a tech lead or senior technical owner for complex robotics projects
• Experience working across learned models and classical perception approaches
• Experience training, fine-tuning, and evaluating perception models
• Strong experience writing production-quality C++ and Python code
• Hands-on experience with monocular vision, stereo vision, RGB-D sensing, or depth reconstruction
• Experience with perception libraries (OpenCV, Open3D, PCL, ROS perception, NumPy, scikit-image)
• You love solving hard perception problems, but your real passion is seeing those solutions work on a robot in the real world and having an impact
• You’re excited to work on hardware
• You enjoy debugging, testing, and iterating quickly in simulation and on the real robot

You Might Also Have

• Solid understanding of spatial reasoning 
• Demonstrated ability to apply object perception model outputs (detection, segmentation, pose estimation) in manipulation pipelines
• Experience with structured 3D estimation (plane fitting, normal estimation, voxel maps, etc)

This a hybrid position based out of one of our Salem, Pittsburgh, or Fremont offices.

The final salary offered to a successful candidate will be dependent on several factors that may include but are not limited to: market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. This range may change based on geographical location and may be modified in the future.

About the Role:

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Tracking Team, you will drive the delivery of both classical and machine learning solutions to core tracking challenges within our self-driving system. A central function of the tracking team is the real-time, temporally consistent estimation of the local scene (including actors, obstacles, and map features) based on a history of sensor data. In this role, you will be instrumental in the design and delivery of algorithms and models that run onboard the AV, evaluating the perception system's performance against production requirements, and contributing to the long-term technical vision of the team.

Responsibilities:

• Work in a team to deliver state-of-the-art closed- and open- world tracking systems for L4 self-driving vehicles.
• Contribute to the technical direction of the tracking team and broader perception org.
• Write robust software for real-time, resource-constrained, safety-critical applications.
• Drive highly cross-functional features and work streams from problem statement to delivery.
• Proactively identify limitations with the existing perception system and drive improvements.
• Root-cause issues that arise onboard, and provide solutions.
• Align stakeholders with strong presentation and communication skills.
• Lead challenging technical topics and build consensus.

Qualifications: 

• Experience architecting, training, and deploying ML models into real-world environments.
• Track record of driving applied research projects from start to completion, including conception, problem definition, experimentation, iteration, and finally publication or productization.
• Experience delivering perception/tracking solutions for real-time robotic applications.
• Knowledge and experience employing advanced probabilistic algorithms to solve problems involving uncertain inputs and imperfect models.
• Strong experience in software engineering and algorithm design.
• Fluency in Python and C++.

Required:

• 3+ in Windows desktop application development using Windows App SDK, WinUI (or similar), C#, XAML — and ideally additional experience with native Windows code (C++, Win32/WinRT/COM).
• Deep understanding of Windows application architecture, including interop between managed code (.NET) and native code.
• Proven track record of designing, building, and shipping production-quality desktop applications, with an emphasis on reliability, performance, scalability, and maintainability.
• Strong experience with accessibility APIs on Windows (e.g. Microsoft UI Automation or similar), and a dedication to building accessible and inclusive software.
• Excellent software engineering fundamentals: OOP, design patterns, data structures, algorithms, memory management, multi-threading or asynchronous programming (where relevant).
• Experience leading technical design, mentoring other engineers, conducting code reviews, and making architecture-level decisions.
• Strong communication skills; ability to articulate tradeoffs, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and drive consensus.
• A user-centric mindset: focus on building polished, intuitive, and accessible experiences for end users.

Preferred / Bonus:

• Experience with writing automated tests for UI — unit tests, integration tests, UI automation tests; familiarity with relevant testing frameworks.
• Experience with performance optimization for desktop apps (memory usage, startup time, rendering performance, high-DPI support, responsiveness under load).
• Experience with localization/globalization, right-to-left UI support, internationalization, accessibility for multiple regions.
• Familiarity with telemetry, analytics, crash reporting, logging, and error monitoring in desktop applications.
• Previous experience in shaping CI/CD workflows, release pipelines, and deployment strategies for desktop applications.
• Demonstrated ability to take ownership of feature areas or modules and drive them long-term, including maintenance, refactoring, and technical debt management.

What we offer

• A high-impact role: you will define architecture, shape the future of our Windows product, and directly influence what millions of users see and experience.
• A collaborative, flat-structure engineering culture — you are not just a coder, but a builder and a decision-maker.
• Opportunities to lead — mentor others, steer technical direction, and grow into broader technical leadership (e.g. Tech Lead, Architect).
• Flexibility, autonomy, and responsibility: you define how to solve problems, own features end-to-end, and contribute to long-term product vision.
• A purpose-driven mission: building software that’s reliable, accessible, and user-centered — making a real difference for people.

The United States Based Salary range for this role is: 140,000-200,000 USD/Year + Bonus + Stock depending on experience             

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Speechify does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

About the Role:

The Dynamic World Perception team is responsible for real-time detection of road actors and properties. This includes developing occupancy networks and other perception algorithms to accurately identify and classify all dynamic elements within the driving environment. We're looking for a Staff or Senior Engineer to lead the development, maintenance, and enhancement of our long-range detection capabilities, ensuring the required safety and performance standards are met or exceeded.

Responsibilities:

• Lead initiatives in the team to deliver state-of-the-art closed-and open-world detection capabilities.
• Contribute to expansion and fusion of existing detection models to support improving performance and extending performance at range.
• Contribute to improvement of model frameworks, architecture, and data pipelines.
• Develop robust software for onboard vehicle deployment, optimizing for real-time, resource-constrained, and safety-critical environments.
• Drive highly cross-functional features and workstreams from problem statement to delivery.
• Contribute to the technical direction of the team and broader perception org.
• Align stakeholders with strong presentation and communication skills.
• Lead challenging technical topics and build consensus.

Qualifications: 

• Extensive experience architecting, training, and deploying deep learning models into real-world environments.
• Track record of driving applied research projects from start to completion, including conception, problem definition, experimentation, iteration, and finally publication or productization.
• Experience delivering detection, segmentation, and/or tracking solutions for real-time robotic applications. Prior experience in sensor fusion is highly desirable.
• Strong experience in software engineering and machine learning algorithm design.
• Fluency in Python.
• Experience with C++.

Motional’s Pittsburgh office is located in the new Hazelwood Green development, a culmination of the city’s goal of restoring an economic driver to the neighborhood in a thoughtful, inclusive, and sustainable way. With views along the Monongahela river, the Pittsburgh office is in the heart of this new state of the art development.

Mission Summary:

Our Vehicle Platform Components team is seeking a highly motivated Senior Engineer to assume ownership of the development and integration of the autonomous vehicle Electronic Controllers (ECUs) and Data Loggers. This position serves as the primary technical owner for the development, validation, and production readiness of our ECUs. The incumbent will ensure that components adhere to all functional requirements and quality standards, and will support component delivery to satisfy all performance, cost, and timing objectives.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and manage component-level technical requirements throughout the program development lifecycle.
• Lead technical collaboration with component suppliers, serving as the internal technical expert for the component.
• Ensure all components comply with specifications for performance KPIs, safety, and reliability.
• Guarantee that components adhere to relevant industry standards and regulatory requirements.
• Collaborate with Design Release Engineers to ensure components meet the overall product's program targets and goals.
• Collaborate with Systems Engineers to confirm that component requirements satisfy system needs and that selected components integrate seamlessly into the overall system architecture.
• Responsible for validating component functionality through hands-on testing conducted at both the bench and vehicle levels.
• Lead issue resolution with suppliers and internal cross-functional teams in a timely and effective manner.
  
  

What We’re Looking For:

• 7+ years of experience in automotive component design, development and integration.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Technology or a related field.
• Demonstrated expertise in the design, development, and integration of complex Electronic Control Units (ECUs).
• Proven experience utilizing widely adopted Microcontrollers (MCUs) and Systems-on-Chips (SoCs) within automotive ECU applications.
• Experience with automotive communication protocols, including CAN, CAN-FD, and Automotive Ethernet (10GBASE-T1).
• Experience with high-bandwidth data acquisition systems, including proficiency in PCIe switching and direct storage technologies.
• Familiarity with NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Orin / Thor architecture and developer kits.
• Proficiency in Linux, including the ability to develop scripts (e.g., Python, C++, bash) for testing and validation, and layer 2 networking concepts.
• Experience with lab equipment, including power supplies, oscilloscopes, multimeters, and function generators.
• Proficiency in automotive diagnostic tools, including Vector tools (CANoe, CANape, vFlash) and DoCAN/DoIP.
• Experience with automotive environmental, EMI, and shock/vibration testing.
• Experience in root-cause analysis, with a focus on utilizing AV / ADAS vehicle logs to pinpoint scenarios that negatively affect autonomous system performance.
• Familiarity with automotive components validation documentation and procedures, such as DVP&R, DFMEA and PFMEA.
• Experience with requirement compliance, issue-tracking and task management software platforms such as JIRA, Polarion, Confluence, etc.
• Demonstrated experience collaborating with an automotive Tier-1 supplier on the technical development of electronic components.
• Understanding of vehicle integration, packaging, and functional safety standards (ISO 26262)
  
  

Bonus Points:

• Prior experience in an autonomous vehicle or robotics company.
• Prior experience of ECU design for autonomous vehicles.
  
  

This role is based in our Pittsburgh office and requires in-office days each week.

Aurora hires talented people with diverse backgrounds who are ready to help build a transportation ecosystem that will make our roads safer, get crucial goods where they need to go, and make mobility more efficient and accessible for all. We’re searching for a Staff Software Engineer to join Aurora’s Vehicle Connectivity team. The Vehicle Connectivity team is responsible for Aurora’s self-driving vehicle connectivity stack for reliable, observable, and secure vehicle-to-cloud communications.

In this role, you will

• Define vehicle connectivity and communication architecture
• Address connectivity-specific concerns for vehicle runtime, e.g. networking, performance, and observability
• Perform connectivity bring up of new vehicle platforms
• Work with autonomy engineers to meet performance and efficiency requirements for data collection and offload
• Provide engineering support for field testing and fleet operations

Required Qualifications

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent industry experience
• Strong programming skills in C++
• Ability to work across multiple programming languages and paradigms
• Experience working with networking protocols, such as TCP, UDP, gRPC, HTTP
• A passion for writing robust, intuitive, high-performance code, and being pragmatic about it
• Experience with Linux network configuration and troubleshooting
• Ability to navigate and work effectively in large codebases
• Strong verbal and written communication skills 
• Work autonomously, but still be a great team player with colleagues across time-zones

Desirable Qualifications 

• Experience with performance evaluation and optimization. 
• Network health monitoring frameworks
• Strong programming skills in GoLang
• Experience with safety critical systems
• Good understanding of ethernet switching and interaction between OSI layers 1, 2, 3 and 4

The base range for this position is $171,000 - $273,000.  Aurora’s pay ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, the successful candidate’s starting base pay will be determined based on factors including job-related skills, experience, qualifications, relevant education or training, and market conditions. These ranges may be modified in the future. The successful candidate will also be eligible for an annual bonus, equity compensation, and benefits.

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 #Mid-Senior 

Aurora hires talented people with diverse backgrounds who are ready to help build a transportation ecosystem that will make our roads safer, get crucial goods where they need to go, and make mobility more efficient and accessible for all. 

The Offline Mapping team is responsible for producing high-definition (HD) maps that the Aurora Driver operates on.  In this role, you will develop software for powering the large-scale pipelines and orchestration that will unlock the ability to build high definition 3D maps quickly and reliably for the Aurora Driver. This software is critical to the mission of Aurora, as it enables a reliable and robust expansion of the Aurora Driver’s operational domain.

This position is situated at the confluence of developing large-scale backend systems for orchestration and workflow management. This role involves being able to construct a robust, high-volume backend system to meticulously track the state of numerous pipelines, steps and tasks involved in map generation. Furthermore, the role encompasses the development of pipeline workflows to efficiently process substantial data volumes originating from the various constituents of the mapping algorithms and processes. We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our Map Orchestration Team.

In this role you will:

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable backend systems that can help track state and orchestrate the various steps in the map building pipelines in a robust and tractable way.
• Develop, scale and maintain the services and infrastructure that powers the map building pipelines.
• Collaborate with engineers on the map generation algorithms, localization and operational teams for ensuring we have a clear interface for operational hand-offs, notifications and escalation mechanisms.
• Develop software in Python and C++, using modern best practices
• Troubleshoot and solve complex issues within large-scale data pipelines and orchestration systems

Required Qualifications:

• BS/MS or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics or a related field
• 5+ years of industry experience building software in a production environment
• Proficiency with developing backend systems (gRPC, SQL databases, MapReduce architecture) using Python or C++.
• Experience with software design, in particular in complex systems with many dependencies
• Ability to collaborate effectively in a cross-functional team environment 

Desirable Qualifications:

• Prior experience with mapping systems
• Prior experience with robotics or autonomous vehicles
• Familiarity with large-scale big data pipelines with Map Reduce and pipeline optimization
• Experience with C++ (Ideally C++17 or newer)

The base salary for range for this position is $146,000 - $211,500 per year.  Aurora’s pay ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, the successful candidate’s starting base pay will be determined based on factors including job-related skills, experience, qualifications, relevant education or training, and market conditions. These ranges may be modified in the future. The successful candidate will also be eligible for an annual bonus, equity compensation, and benefits.

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#Mid-Senior 

Motional’s Pittsburgh office is located in the new Hazelwood Green development, a culmination of the city’s goal of restoring an economic driver to the neighborhood in a thoughtful, inclusive, and sustainable way. With views along the Monongahela river, the Pittsburgh office is in the heart of this new state of the art development.

Mission Summary:

Our Vehicle Platform Components team is seeking a highly motivated Senior Engineer to assume ownership of the development and integration of the autonomous vehicle’s vision sensors. This position serves as the primary technical owner for the development, validation, and production readiness of our vision sensors. The incumbent will ensure that sensors adhere to all functional requirements and quality standards, and will support sensor delivery to satisfy all performance, cost, and timing objectives.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and manage component-level technical requirements throughout the program development lifecycle.
• Lead technical collaboration with component suppliers, serving as the internal technical expert for the component.
• Ensure all components comply with specifications for performance KPIs, safety, and reliability.
• Guarantee that components adhere to relevant industry standards and regulatory requirements.
• Collaborate with Design Release Engineers to ensure components meet the overall product's program targets and goals.
• Collaborate with Systems Engineers to confirm that component requirements satisfy system needs and that selected components integrate seamlessly into the overall system architecture.
• Responsible for validating component functionality through hands-on testing conducted at both the bench and vehicle levels.
• Lead issue resolution with suppliers and internal cross-functional teams in a timely and effective manner.

What We’re Looking For:

• 7+ years of experience in automotive component design, development and integration.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Technology, Optoelectronics (or a related field).
• Demonstrated knowledge of optical systems, encompassing the construction and design of camera components.
• Experience with machine vision camera design, development and integration.
• Understanding of high-throughput Image Signal Processing (ISP) pipeline design and implementation.
• Experience with automotive communication protocols including CAN, CAN-FD, Ethernet, GMSL, and FPD-Link.
• Proficiency in Linux, including the ability to develop scripts (e.g., Python, C++) for testing, validation, and interaction with camera hardware.
• Familiarity with NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Orin / Thor architecture and developer kits.
• Experience with lab equipment, including power supplies, oscilloscopes, multimeters, and function generators.
• Proficiency in automotive diagnostic tools, including Vector tools (CANoe, CANape, vFlash).
• Experience with automotive environmental, EMI, and shock/vibration testing.
• Experience in root-cause analysis, with a focus on utilizing AV / ADAS vehicle logs to pinpoint sensor impairments that negatively affect autonomous system performance.
• Familiarity with automotive components validation documentation and procedures, such as DVP&R, DFMEA and PFMEA.
• Experience with requirement compliance, issue-tracking and task management software platforms such as JIRA, Polarion, Confluence, etc.
• Demonstrated experience collaborating with an automotive Tier-1 supplier on the technical development of electronic components.
• Understanding of vehicle integration, packaging, and functional safety standards (ISO 26262)
  
  

Bonus Points:

• Prior experience in automotive vision sensor hardware and software integration or ADAS technologies.
• Prior experience in an autonomous vehicle or robotics company.

Motional is a leading autonomous driving company on a mission to make driverless vehicles a safe, reliable, and accessible reality. Backed by Hyundai Motor Group, Motional is at the forefront of the physical AI revolution. Motional isn’t just building first-of-its-kind technology; we are transforming transportation to create safer streets and more sustainable mobility options.

The Systems Readiness and Performance team is the crucial bridge between software development and real-world deployment. We are responsible for driving system design, for verifying and validating the autonomy stack, and for defining, measuring, and validating system performance targets. We work closely with stakeholders in autonomy, infrastructure, and operations to build the definitive safety case for the commercial launch of our fully driverless IONIQ 5 robotaxis in Las Vegas later this year.

Mission Summary:

The Autonomy Subsystems team at Motional is focused on designing and evaluating modules of the autonomy software. We are seeking a talented senior engineer to contribute to evaluation of our machine learning subsystems. Our team performs a variety of evaluations of machine learning models, including offline model eval, evaluation of open and closed-loop re-simulations, and assessment of on-road performance. Our goal is to establish metrics that describe autonomy subsystem performance, evaluate against those metrics to validate performance, and provide meaningful insight to ML developers and teams, working closely alongside them to improve the performance of ML models on the car.

We are looking for a highly-technical systems engineer with experience designing and evaluating safety critical systems and machine learning models. Bring your passion for autonomy, robotics, and machine learning to our team to help build a production-ready system and prepare for our scaled robotaxi service deployment.

Responsibilities:

• Define, prototype, and validate advanced metrics that bring new insights to model performance evaluation for autonomy subsystems (mainly focused on perception, prediction, and planning).
• Assess coverage of existing training and testing, then curate test sets that sufficiently capture Motional’s intended deployment operational design domain, across many axes (agent types, interaction types, map/spatial, etc.).
• Evaluate machine learning model performance against these metrics and tests.
• Assess system-level performance and subsystem contribution to system behavior through large-scale data analysis of on-road and simulation events.
• Define performance requirements for autonomy subsystems, and supporting analyses required to establish these targets.
• Coordinate subsystem-level evaluation with other system-level testing efforts across the systems team in support of the safety case and safety claims.
  
  

Qualifications:

• An engineer who has demonstrated strong cross-functional collaborative skills and is highly self-starting. This is a highly cooperative role across systems, autonomy, infrastructure, and other parts of the organization.
• Proven engineer with 5+ years of experience working on high-tech safety critical systems or robotics, ideally from a systems, robotics, or similar background.
• Master’s degree in relevant fields (systems, robotics, ML, CS, etc.) or Bachelor’s degree plus significant relevant in-field experience.
• Skilled Python developer, familiarity with analyzing the large scale data required to train and test ML models.
• Experience designing unique metrics that capture key aspects of system behavior and are used to enhance model development.
  
  

Bonus Skills:

• Experience training machine learning models, familiarity with state-of-the-art ML model architectures.
• Deep experience with a specific aspect of machine learning for autonomous robotics (perception, prediction, or planning).
• Knowledge of C++, especially applied to safety critical systems.
• Experience with systems verification and validation techniques
• Experience with regression testing updates to already-deployed software in a safety-critical environment.
• Experience with automotive standards (E.g: ISO 12207, ISO 26262, ISO 21448)
• Experience with software quality management and assurance activities (E.g: IATF 16949, ISO 9001)
• Thorough understanding of robotics systems including sensors, actuators, mechatronics and software systems
• Work in cross collaboration teams to address problems and find solutions
  
  

Physical Demands:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, talk, or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand and at times for long periods; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and move up to 50 pounds.

Travel Requirements (greater than 20%):
Expected to travel for 1-2 weeks each quarter visiting all of our testing sites - mostly to LV, but also domestically as needed for the business.

Working Environment

The work environment characteristics described here represent those a team member encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The team member is regularly exposed to mechanical and computer parts. The team member is occasionally exposed to fumes and/or airborne particlesThe noise level in the environment is low to moderate. 

Motional AD LLC is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and we welcome all qualified applicants.  All applicants will receive impartial consideration without regard to race, sex, color, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic data, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation or other legally protected status.  Motional AD LLC is a Drug-free workplace.

Motional is a leading autonomous driving company on a mission to make driverless vehicles a safe, reliable, and accessible reality. Backed by Hyundai Motor Group, Motional is at the forefront of the physical AI revolution. Motional isn’t just building first-of-its-kind technology; we are transforming transportation to create safer streets and more sustainable mobility options.

The Systems Readiness and Performance team is the crucial bridge between software development and real-world deployment. We are responsible for driving system design, for verifying and validating the autonomy stack, and for defining, measuring, and validating system performance targets. We work closely with stakeholders in autonomy, infrastructure, and operations to build the definitive safety case for the commercial launch of our fully driverless IONIQ 5 robotaxis in Las Vegas later this year.

Mission Summary:

The Autonomy Subsystems team at Motional is focused on designing and evaluating modules of the autonomy software. We are seeking a talented senior engineer to contribute to evaluation of our machine learning subsystems. Our team performs a variety of evaluations of machine learning models, including offline model eval, evaluation of open and closed-loop re-simulations, and assessment of on-road performance. Our goal is to establish metrics that describe autonomy subsystem performance, evaluate against those metrics to validate performance, and provide meaningful insight to ML developers and teams, working closely alongside them to improve the performance of ML models on the car.

We are looking for a highly-technical systems engineer with experience designing and evaluating safety critical systems and machine learning models. Bring your passion for autonomy, robotics, and machine learning to our team to help build a production-ready system and prepare for our scaled robotaxi service deployment.

Responsibilities:

• Define, prototype, and validate advanced metrics that bring new insights to model performance evaluation for autonomy subsystems (mainly focused on perception, prediction, and planning).
• Assess coverage of existing training and testing, then curate test sets that sufficiently capture Motional’s intended deployment operational design domain, across many axes (agent types, interaction types, map/spatial, etc.).
• Evaluate machine learning model performance against these metrics and tests.
• Assess system-level performance and subsystem contribution to system behavior through large-scale data analysis of on-road and simulation events.
• Define performance requirements for autonomy subsystems, and supporting analyses required to establish these targets.
• Coordinate subsystem-level evaluation with other system-level testing efforts across the systems team in support of the safety case and safety claims.
  
  

Qualifications:

• An engineer who has demonstrated strong cross-functional collaborative skills and is highly self-starting. This is a highly cooperative role across systems, autonomy, infrastructure, and other parts of the organization.
• Proven engineer with 5+ years of experience working on high-tech safety critical systems or robotics, ideally from a systems, robotics, or similar background.
• Master’s degree in relevant fields (systems, robotics, ML, CS, etc.) or Bachelor’s degree plus significant relevant in-field experience.
• Skilled Python developer, familiarity with analyzing the large scale data required to train and test ML models.
• Experience designing unique metrics that capture key aspects of system behavior and are used to enhance model development.
  
  

Bonus Skills:

• Experience training machine learning models, familiarity with state-of-the-art ML model architectures.
• Deep experience with a specific aspect of machine learning for autonomous robotics (perception, prediction, or planning).
• Knowledge of C++, especially applied to safety critical systems.
• Experience with systems verification and validation techniques
• Experience with regression testing updates to already-deployed software in a safety-critical environment.
• Experience with automotive standards (E.g: ISO 12207, ISO 26262, ISO 21448)
• Experience with software quality management and assurance activities (E.g: IATF 16949, ISO 9001)
• Thorough understanding of robotics systems including sensors, actuators, mechatronics and software systems
• Work in cross collaboration teams to address problems and find solutions
  
  

Physical Demands:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, talk, or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand and at times for long periods; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and move up to 50 pounds.

Travel Requirements (greater than 20%):
Expected to travel for 1-2 weeks each quarter visiting all of our testing sites - mostly to LV, but also domestically as needed for the business.

Working Environment

The work environment characteristics described here represent those a team member encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The team member is regularly exposed to mechanical and computer parts. The team member is occasionally exposed to fumes and/or airborne particlesThe noise level in the environment is low to moderate. 

Motional AD LLC is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and we welcome all qualified applicants.  All applicants will receive impartial consideration without regard to race, sex, color, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic data, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation or other legally protected status.  Motional AD LLC is a Drug-free workplace.

Motional is a leading autonomous driving company on a mission to make driverless vehicles a safe, reliable, and accessible reality. Backed by Hyundai Motor Group, Motional is at the forefront of the physical AI revolution. Motional isn’t just building first-of-its-kind technology; we are transforming transportation to create safer streets and more sustainable mobility options.

The Systems Readiness and Performance team is the crucial bridge between software development and real-world deployment. We are responsible for driving system design, for verifying and validating the autonomy stack, and for defining, measuring, and validating system performance targets. We work closely with stakeholders in autonomy, infrastructure, and operations to build the definitive safety case for the commercial launch of our fully driverless IONIQ 5 robotaxis in Las Vegas later this year.

Mission Summary:

The Autonomy Subsystems team at Motional is focused on designing and evaluating modules of the autonomy software. We are seeking a talented senior engineer to contribute to evaluation of our machine learning subsystems. Our team performs a variety of evaluations of machine learning models, including offline model eval, evaluation of open and closed-loop re-simulations, and assessment of on-road performance. Our goal is to establish metrics that describe autonomy subsystem performance, evaluate against those metrics to validate performance, and provide meaningful insight to ML developers and teams, working closely alongside them to improve the performance of ML models on the car.

We are looking for a highly-technical systems engineer with experience designing and evaluating safety critical systems and machine learning models. Bring your passion for autonomy, robotics, and machine learning to our team to help build a production-ready system and prepare for our scaled robotaxi service deployment.

Responsibilities:

• Define, prototype, and validate advanced metrics that bring new insights to model performance evaluation for autonomy subsystems (mainly focused on perception, prediction, and planning).
• Assess coverage of existing training and testing, then curate test sets that sufficiently capture Motional’s intended deployment operational design domain, across many axes (agent types, interaction types, map/spatial, etc.).
• Evaluate machine learning model performance against these metrics and tests.
• Assess system-level performance and subsystem contribution to system behavior through large-scale data analysis of on-road and simulation events.
• Define performance requirements for autonomy subsystems, and supporting analyses required to establish these targets.
• Coordinate subsystem-level evaluation with other system-level testing efforts across the systems team in support of the safety case and safety claims.
  
  

Qualifications:

• An engineer who has demonstrated strong cross-functional collaborative skills and is highly self-starting. This is a highly cooperative role across systems, autonomy, infrastructure, and other parts of the organization.
• Proven engineer with 5+ years of experience working on high-tech safety critical systems or robotics, ideally from a systems, robotics, or similar background.
• Master’s degree in relevant fields (systems, robotics, ML, CS, etc.) or Bachelor’s degree plus significant relevant in-field experience.
• Skilled Python developer, familiarity with analyzing the large scale data required to train and test ML models.
• Experience designing unique metrics that capture key aspects of system behavior and are used to enhance model development.
  
  

Bonus Skills:

• Experience training machine learning models, familiarity with state-of-the-art ML model architectures.
• Deep experience with a specific aspect of machine learning for autonomous robotics (perception, prediction, or planning).
• Knowledge of C++, especially applied to safety critical systems.
• Experience with systems verification and validation techniques
• Experience with regression testing updates to already-deployed software in a safety-critical environment.
• Experience with automotive standards (E.g: ISO 12207, ISO 26262, ISO 21448)
• Experience with software quality management and assurance activities (E.g: IATF 16949, ISO 9001)
• Thorough understanding of robotics systems including sensors, actuators, mechatronics and software systems
• Work in cross collaboration teams to address problems and find solutions
  
  

Physical Demands:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, talk, or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand and at times for long periods; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and move up to 50 pounds.

Travel Requirements (greater than 20%):
Expected to travel for 1-2 weeks each quarter visiting all of our testing sites - mostly to LV, but also domestically as needed for the business.

Working Environment

The work environment characteristics described here represent those a team member encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The team member is regularly exposed to mechanical and computer parts. The team member is occasionally exposed to fumes and/or airborne particlesThe noise level in the environment is low to moderate. 

Motional AD LLC is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and we welcome all qualified applicants.  All applicants will receive impartial consideration without regard to race, sex, color, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic data, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation or other legally protected status.  Motional AD LLC is a Drug-free workplace.

Motional is a leading autonomous driving company on a mission to make driverless vehicles a safe, reliable, and accessible reality. Backed by Hyundai Motor Group, Motional is at the forefront of the physical AI revolution. Motional isn’t just building first-of-its-kind technology; we are transforming transportation to create safer streets and more sustainable mobility options.

The Systems Readiness and Performance team is the crucial bridge between software development and real-world deployment. We are responsible for driving system design, for verifying and validating the autonomy stack, and for defining, measuring, and validating system performance targets. We work closely with stakeholders in autonomy, infrastructure, and operations to build the definitive safety case for the commercial launch of our fully driverless IONIQ 5 robotaxis in Las Vegas later this year.

Mission Summary:

The Autonomy Subsystems team at Motional is focused on designing and evaluating modules of the autonomy software. We are seeking a talented senior engineer to contribute to evaluation of our machine learning subsystems. Our team performs a variety of evaluations of machine learning models, including offline model eval, evaluation of open and closed-loop re-simulations, and assessment of on-road performance. Our goal is to establish metrics that describe autonomy subsystem performance, evaluate against those metrics to validate performance, and provide meaningful insight to ML developers and teams, working closely alongside them to improve the performance of ML models on the car.

We are looking for a highly-technical systems engineer with experience designing and evaluating safety critical systems and machine learning models. Bring your passion for autonomy, robotics, and machine learning to our team to help build a production-ready system and prepare for our scaled robotaxi service deployment.

Responsibilities:

• Define, prototype, and validate advanced metrics that bring new insights to model performance evaluation for autonomy subsystems (mainly focused on perception, prediction, and planning).
• Assess coverage of existing training and testing, then curate test sets that sufficiently capture Motional’s intended deployment operational design domain, across many axes (agent types, interaction types, map/spatial, etc.).
• Evaluate machine learning model performance against these metrics and tests.
• Assess system-level performance and subsystem contribution to system behavior through large-scale data analysis of on-road and simulation events.
• Define performance requirements for autonomy subsystems, and supporting analyses required to establish these targets.
• Coordinate subsystem-level evaluation with other system-level testing efforts across the systems team in support of the safety case and safety claims.
  
  

Qualifications:

• An engineer who has demonstrated strong cross-functional collaborative skills and is highly self-starting. This is a highly cooperative role across systems, autonomy, infrastructure, and other parts of the organization.
• Proven engineer with 5+ years of experience working on high-tech safety critical systems or robotics, ideally from a systems, robotics, or similar background.
• Master’s degree in relevant fields (systems, robotics, ML, CS, etc.) or Bachelor’s degree plus significant relevant in-field experience.
• Skilled Python developer, familiarity with analyzing the large scale data required to train and test ML models.
• Experience designing unique metrics that capture key aspects of system behavior and are used to enhance model development.
  
  

Bonus Skills:

• Experience training machine learning models, familiarity with state-of-the-art ML model architectures.
• Deep experience with a specific aspect of machine learning for autonomous robotics (perception, prediction, or planning).
• Knowledge of C++, especially applied to safety critical systems.
• Experience with systems verification and validation techniques
• Experience with regression testing updates to already-deployed software in a safety-critical environment.
• Experience with automotive standards (E.g: ISO 12207, ISO 26262, ISO 21448)
• Experience with software quality management and assurance activities (E.g: IATF 16949, ISO 9001)
• Thorough understanding of robotics systems including sensors, actuators, mechatronics and software systems
• Work in cross collaboration teams to address problems and find solutions
  
  

Physical Demands:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, talk, or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand and at times for long periods; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and move up to 50 pounds.

Travel Requirements (greater than 20%):
Expected to travel for 1-2 weeks each quarter visiting all of our testing sites - mostly to LV, but also domestically as needed for the business.

Working Environment

The work environment characteristics described here represent those a team member encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The team member is regularly exposed to mechanical and computer parts. The team member is occasionally exposed to fumes and/or airborne particlesThe noise level in the environment is low to moderate. 

Motional AD LLC is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and we welcome all qualified applicants.  All applicants will receive impartial consideration without regard to race, sex, color, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic data, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation or other legally protected status.  Motional AD LLC is a Drug-free workplace.

Mission Summary:

As a Technical Lead Manager at Motional, you'll lead a team responsible for the development and delivery of core trajectory planning algorithms via numerical optimization for autonomous vehicles. In this role, you will be at the forefront of shaping the motion planning and control systems that enable our fleet to navigate complex environments safely, efficiently, and comfortably. As a key leader, you will drive the development and continuous performance improvements of cutting-edge trajectory generation algorithms, collaborate with cross-functional teams (Planning, Perception, Prediction, Localization, ML Products, and Systems Engineering), and mentor a talented group of highly skilled engineers to deliver state-of-the-art solutions. 

If you are passionate about autonomous driving and being part of our commercial launch this year, thrive on solving challenging real-world problems, and eager to make a significant impact in a rapidly evolving field, we want to hear from you!

What you'll do:

• Lead and scale a high-impact trajectory planning team, defining its technical vision, execution strategy, and long-term organizational role within the Motion organization.
• Drive commercial launch readiness for trajectory planning by delivering on-road driving behavior improvements (safety, comfort, and assertiveness) across the fleet through feature expansion, continuous performance improvements, and innovation through state-of-the art methods.
• Apply a rigorous, metrics-driven framework to quantify and improve on-road performance. Champion leveraging existing training and evaluation pipelines to ensure scalable, production-ready delivery.
• Manage the computational efficiency and real-time performance of trajectory generation algorithms, ensuring latency budget compliance.
• Lead the rapid triage and root-cause analysis (RCA) of critical fleet incidents, translating real-world edge cases into immediate algorithmic refinements and validation sets.
• Oversee the successful execution of complex, multi-team initiatives, ensuring technical alignment from design through deployment while maintaining a rigorous standard for testing and validation to meet the high safety bars required for our commercial launch.
• Coordinate with peer leads to provide technical leadership, making consequential decisions on architectural direction, strategic investments, tactical execution, and technical debt reduction.Ensure technical excellence through rigorous design and code reviews while actively facilitating the professional growth and mentorship of your engineering team. Set and drive ambitious goals that challenge the team to deliver industry-leading trajectory planning solutions.
• Define and negotiate quarterly and annual technical roadmaps aligned with company-level autonomy milestones in coordinate with project managers and execute plans on schedule.
  
  

What we're looking for:

• Proven Engineering Leadership: 2+ years of experience managing high-performing development teams, with a demonstrable track record of inspiring, mentoring, and coaching engineers and driving measurable productivity gains.
• Ship-to-Production Mindset: Experience leading the delivery of production-quality algorithms in a high-stakes environment (Autonomous Vehicles, Robotics, or Aerospace). You know what it takes to move from a prototype to a commercially viable product.
• Strategic Vision: Ability to look beyond the immediate deliverables to define and defend a balanced technical roadmap that balances long-term architectural health with the urgent needs of a 2026 commercial launch.
• Technical Domain Expertise: Deep theoretical and practical expertise in numerical optimization and optimal control. You should be highly proficient in areas such as Model Predictive Control, nonlinear programming, and convex optimization applied to real-time trajectory generation.
• Advanced Motion Planning: Significant experience solving motion planning problems under uncertainty, including interaction-aware planning with dynamic agents and complex environmental constraints. Experience with Machine Learning based approaches is a significant plus.
• Full-Stack Robotics Context: Strong intuition for the entire robotics stack. You understand how upstream (Perception, Prediction) and downstream (Control, Actuation) systems impact trajectory feasibility and fleet safety.
• Production-Grade Software Development: Expertise in Modern C++ development within a Linux environment, with a focus on writing high-performance, real-time, and safety-critical code.
• Tooling Proficiency: Fluency in Python for rapid prototyping, data analysis, and visualization. Experience applying AI-augmented development workflows to large-scale Modern C++ codebases (e.g., agentic tools for multi-file refactoring, automated test generation, semantic code navigation, and code review acceleration) is strongly preferred. Experience with SQL or big-data frameworks for fleet-scale performance analysis is a significant plus.
• Influence & Clarity: Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to translate complex mathematical concepts into actionable plans for cross-functional stakeholders and executive leadership.
• Educational Foundation: Master’s or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical/Mechanical Engineering, or a related quantitative field.
  
  

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mission Summary:

As a Technical Lead Manager at Motional, you'll lead a team responsible for the development and delivery of core trajectory planning algorithms via numerical optimization for autonomous vehicles. In this role, you will be at the forefront of shaping the motion planning and control systems that enable our fleet to navigate complex environments safely, efficiently, and comfortably. As a key leader, you will drive the development and continuous performance improvements of cutting-edge trajectory generation algorithms, collaborate with cross-functional teams (Planning, Perception, Prediction, Localization, ML Products, and Systems Engineering), and mentor a talented group of highly skilled engineers to deliver state-of-the-art solutions. 

If you are passionate about autonomous driving and being part of our commercial launch this year, thrive on solving challenging real-world problems, and eager to make a significant impact in a rapidly evolving field, we want to hear from you!

What you'll do:

• Lead and scale a high-impact trajectory planning team, defining its technical vision, execution strategy, and long-term organizational role within the Motion organization.
• Drive commercial launch readiness for trajectory planning by delivering on-road driving behavior improvements (safety, comfort, and assertiveness) across the fleet through feature expansion, continuous performance improvements, and innovation through state-of-the art methods.
• Apply a rigorous, metrics-driven framework to quantify and improve on-road performance. Champion leveraging existing training and evaluation pipelines to ensure scalable, production-ready delivery.
• Manage the computational efficiency and real-time performance of trajectory generation algorithms, ensuring latency budget compliance.
• Lead the rapid triage and root-cause analysis (RCA) of critical fleet incidents, translating real-world edge cases into immediate algorithmic refinements and validation sets.
• Oversee the successful execution of complex, multi-team initiatives, ensuring technical alignment from design through deployment while maintaining a rigorous standard for testing and validation to meet the high safety bars required for our commercial launch.
• Coordinate with peer leads to provide technical leadership, making consequential decisions on architectural direction, strategic investments, tactical execution, and technical debt reduction.Ensure technical excellence through rigorous design and code reviews while actively facilitating the professional growth and mentorship of your engineering team. Set and drive ambitious goals that challenge the team to deliver industry-leading trajectory planning solutions.
• Define and negotiate quarterly and annual technical roadmaps aligned with company-level autonomy milestones in coordinate with project managers and execute plans on schedule.
  
  

What we're looking for:

• Proven Engineering Leadership: 2+ years of experience managing high-performing development teams, with a demonstrable track record of inspiring, mentoring, and coaching engineers and driving measurable productivity gains.
• Ship-to-Production Mindset: Experience leading the delivery of production-quality algorithms in a high-stakes environment (Autonomous Vehicles, Robotics, or Aerospace). You know what it takes to move from a prototype to a commercially viable product.
• Strategic Vision: Ability to look beyond the immediate deliverables to define and defend a balanced technical roadmap that balances long-term architectural health with the urgent needs of a 2026 commercial launch.
• Technical Domain Expertise: Deep theoretical and practical expertise in numerical optimization and optimal control. You should be highly proficient in areas such as Model Predictive Control, nonlinear programming, and convex optimization applied to real-time trajectory generation.
• Advanced Motion Planning: Significant experience solving motion planning problems under uncertainty, including interaction-aware planning with dynamic agents and complex environmental constraints. Experience with Machine Learning based approaches is a significant plus.
• Full-Stack Robotics Context: Strong intuition for the entire robotics stack. You understand how upstream (Perception, Prediction) and downstream (Control, Actuation) systems impact trajectory feasibility and fleet safety.
• Production-Grade Software Development: Expertise in Modern C++ development within a Linux environment, with a focus on writing high-performance, real-time, and safety-critical code.
• Tooling Proficiency: Fluency in Python for rapid prototyping, data analysis, and visualization. Experience applying AI-augmented development workflows to large-scale Modern C++ codebases (e.g., agentic tools for multi-file refactoring, automated test generation, semantic code navigation, and code review acceleration) is strongly preferred. Experience with SQL or big-data frameworks for fleet-scale performance analysis is a significant plus.
• Influence & Clarity: Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to translate complex mathematical concepts into actionable plans for cross-functional stakeholders and executive leadership.
• Educational Foundation: Master’s or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical/Mechanical Engineering, or a related quantitative field.
  
  

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.

Mission Summary:

As a Technical Lead Manager at Motional, you'll lead a team responsible for the development and delivery of core trajectory planning algorithms via numerical optimization for autonomous vehicles. In this role, you will be at the forefront of shaping the motion planning and control systems that enable our fleet to navigate complex environments safely, efficiently, and comfortably. As a key leader, you will drive the development and continuous performance improvements of cutting-edge trajectory generation algorithms, collaborate with cross-functional teams (Planning, Perception, Prediction, Localization, ML Products, and Systems Engineering), and mentor a talented group of highly skilled engineers to deliver state-of-the-art solutions. 

If you are passionate about autonomous driving and being part of our commercial launch this year, thrive on solving challenging real-world problems, and eager to make a significant impact in a rapidly evolving field, we want to hear from you!

What you'll do:

• Lead and scale a high-impact trajectory planning team, defining its technical vision, execution strategy, and long-term organizational role within the Motion organization.
• Drive commercial launch readiness for trajectory planning by delivering on-road driving behavior improvements (safety, comfort, and assertiveness) across the fleet through feature expansion, continuous performance improvements, and innovation through state-of-the art methods.
• Apply a rigorous, metrics-driven framework to quantify and improve on-road performance. Champion leveraging existing training and evaluation pipelines to ensure scalable, production-ready delivery.
• Manage the computational efficiency and real-time performance of trajectory generation algorithms, ensuring latency budget compliance.
• Lead the rapid triage and root-cause analysis (RCA) of critical fleet incidents, translating real-world edge cases into immediate algorithmic refinements and validation sets.
• Oversee the successful execution of complex, multi-team initiatives, ensuring technical alignment from design through deployment while maintaining a rigorous standard for testing and validation to meet the high safety bars required for our commercial launch.
• Coordinate with peer leads to provide technical leadership, making consequential decisions on architectural direction, strategic investments, tactical execution, and technical debt reduction.Ensure technical excellence through rigorous design and code reviews while actively facilitating the professional growth and mentorship of your engineering team. Set and drive ambitious goals that challenge the team to deliver industry-leading trajectory planning solutions.
• Define and negotiate quarterly and annual technical roadmaps aligned with company-level autonomy milestones in coordinate with project managers and execute plans on schedule.
  
  

What we're looking for:

• Proven Engineering Leadership: 2+ years of experience managing high-performing development teams, with a demonstrable track record of inspiring, mentoring, and coaching engineers and driving measurable productivity gains.
• Ship-to-Production Mindset: Experience leading the delivery of production-quality algorithms in a high-stakes environment (Autonomous Vehicles, Robotics, or Aerospace). You know what it takes to move from a prototype to a commercially viable product.
• Strategic Vision: Ability to look beyond the immediate deliverables to define and defend a balanced technical roadmap that balances long-term architectural health with the urgent needs of a 2026 commercial launch.
• Technical Domain Expertise: Deep theoretical and practical expertise in numerical optimization and optimal control. You should be highly proficient in areas such as Model Predictive Control, nonlinear programming, and convex optimization applied to real-time trajectory generation.
• Advanced Motion Planning: Significant experience solving motion planning problems under uncertainty, including interaction-aware planning with dynamic agents and complex environmental constraints. Experience with Machine Learning based approaches is a significant plus.
• Full-Stack Robotics Context: Strong intuition for the entire robotics stack. You understand how upstream (Perception, Prediction) and downstream (Control, Actuation) systems impact trajectory feasibility and fleet safety.
• Production-Grade Software Development: Expertise in Modern C++ development within a Linux environment, with a focus on writing high-performance, real-time, and safety-critical code.
• Tooling Proficiency: Fluency in Python for rapid prototyping, data analysis, and visualization. Experience applying AI-augmented development workflows to large-scale Modern C++ codebases (e.g., agentic tools for multi-file refactoring, automated test generation, semantic code navigation, and code review acceleration) is strongly preferred. Experience with SQL or big-data frameworks for fleet-scale performance analysis is a significant plus.
• Influence & Clarity: Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to translate complex mathematical concepts into actionable plans for cross-functional stakeholders and executive leadership.
• Educational Foundation: Master’s or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical/Mechanical Engineering, or a related quantitative field.
  
  

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.

Mission Summary:

As a Technical Lead Manager at Motional, you'll lead a team responsible for the development and delivery of core trajectory planning algorithms via numerical optimization for autonomous vehicles. In this role, you will be at the forefront of shaping the motion planning and control systems that enable our fleet to navigate complex environments safely, efficiently, and comfortably. As a key leader, you will drive the development and continuous performance improvements of cutting-edge trajectory generation algorithms, collaborate with cross-functional teams (Planning, Perception, Prediction, Localization, ML Products, and Systems Engineering), and mentor a talented group of highly skilled engineers to deliver state-of-the-art solutions. 

If you are passionate about autonomous driving and being part of our commercial launch this year, thrive on solving challenging real-world problems, and eager to make a significant impact in a rapidly evolving field, we want to hear from you!

What you'll do:

• Lead and scale a high-impact trajectory planning team, defining its technical vision, execution strategy, and long-term organizational role within the Motion organization.
• Drive commercial launch readiness for trajectory planning by delivering on-road driving behavior improvements (safety, comfort, and assertiveness) across the fleet through feature expansion, continuous performance improvements, and innovation through state-of-the art methods.
• Apply a rigorous, metrics-driven framework to quantify and improve on-road performance. Champion leveraging existing training and evaluation pipelines to ensure scalable, production-ready delivery.
• Manage the computational efficiency and real-time performance of trajectory generation algorithms, ensuring latency budget compliance.
• Lead the rapid triage and root-cause analysis (RCA) of critical fleet incidents, translating real-world edge cases into immediate algorithmic refinements and validation sets.
• Oversee the successful execution of complex, multi-team initiatives, ensuring technical alignment from design through deployment while maintaining a rigorous standard for testing and validation to meet the high safety bars required for our commercial launch.
• Coordinate with peer leads to provide technical leadership, making consequential decisions on architectural direction, strategic investments, tactical execution, and technical debt reduction.Ensure technical excellence through rigorous design and code reviews while actively facilitating the professional growth and mentorship of your engineering team. Set and drive ambitious goals that challenge the team to deliver industry-leading trajectory planning solutions.
• Define and negotiate quarterly and annual technical roadmaps aligned with company-level autonomy milestones in coordinate with project managers and execute plans on schedule.
  
  

What we're looking for:

• Proven Engineering Leadership: 2+ years of experience managing high-performing development teams, with a demonstrable track record of inspiring, mentoring, and coaching engineers and driving measurable productivity gains.
• Ship-to-Production Mindset: Experience leading the delivery of production-quality algorithms in a high-stakes environment (Autonomous Vehicles, Robotics, or Aerospace). You know what it takes to move from a prototype to a commercially viable product.
• Strategic Vision: Ability to look beyond the immediate deliverables to define and defend a balanced technical roadmap that balances long-term architectural health with the urgent needs of a 2026 commercial launch.
• Technical Domain Expertise: Deep theoretical and practical expertise in numerical optimization and optimal control. You should be highly proficient in areas such as Model Predictive Control, nonlinear programming, and convex optimization applied to real-time trajectory generation.
• Advanced Motion Planning: Significant experience solving motion planning problems under uncertainty, including interaction-aware planning with dynamic agents and complex environmental constraints. Experience with Machine Learning based approaches is a significant plus.
• Full-Stack Robotics Context: Strong intuition for the entire robotics stack. You understand how upstream (Perception, Prediction) and downstream (Control, Actuation) systems impact trajectory feasibility and fleet safety.
• Production-Grade Software Development: Expertise in Modern C++ development within a Linux environment, with a focus on writing high-performance, real-time, and safety-critical code.
• Tooling Proficiency: Fluency in Python for rapid prototyping, data analysis, and visualization. Experience applying AI-augmented development workflows to large-scale Modern C++ codebases (e.g., agentic tools for multi-file refactoring, automated test generation, semantic code navigation, and code review acceleration) is strongly preferred. Experience with SQL or big-data frameworks for fleet-scale performance analysis is a significant plus.
• Influence & Clarity: Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to translate complex mathematical concepts into actionable plans for cross-functional stakeholders and executive leadership.
• Educational Foundation: Master’s or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical/Mechanical Engineering, or a related quantitative field.
  
  

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.

You’re an engineer who is excited to work on cutting-edge software products and solutions using state-of-the-art computer vision and deep learning. You have a solid foundation in areas like detection, classification, segmentation, or tracking—whether through previous roles, internships, or research—and you’re eager to apply those skills in an impactful, production-focused environment.

You’re curious, motivated, and ready to learn from experienced teammates. You enjoy solving challenging technical problems, asking thoughtful questions, and collaborating with others to build high-quality software.

You’re excited about contributing to the perception stack for self-driving vehicles and learning what it means to build technology for safety-critical, open-world applications.

What you’ll be doing:

• Contribute to the design, development, and improvement of perception components that support downstream modules within the autonomy system.
• Help analyze perception system performance to identify areas for improvement and participate in efforts to address them.
• Work with teammates to explore creative approaches to “long-tail” challenges—for example, experimenting with synthetic data, data mining techniques, or new model architectures.
• Depending on your background and interests, you may also help optimize and deploy models to the vehicle, ensuring they operate within the constraints of our onboard hardware and meet our functional requirements and interface specifications.
• Interface with systems and safety engineers, test engineers, and data analysts to ensure appropriate requirements, test coverage, and performance metrics

What We’re Looking for:

• Master's or Ph.D. in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Robotics, or a related field; or equivalent industry experience
• Solid understanding of fundamental deep learning concepts and computer vision techniques
• Experience building, training, or evaluating neural networks
• Proficiency in Python and familiarity with libraries like PyTorch or similar
• Exposure to software engineering fundamentals—version control, code reviews, testing, and collaborative development
• Clear communication skills and willingness to ask questions, share ideas, and work with others

Bonus Points:

• Previous experience with sensor fusion and/or previous exposure to the AV industry
• Experience shipping a “real” product and balancing ongoing support with next-generation innovation
• Exposure to safety-critical products or components
• Publications in relevant conferences (CVPR, ICML, NeurIPS, etc.)
• Strong programming skills in C++ and/or CUDA programming
• Experience with TensorRT and model quantization

Mission Summary:

We are seeking an experienced and visionary Principle Level Tech Lead Manager to build and lead our new Machine Learning (ML) Acceleration team. This pivotal role will drive the strategy, development, and execution of initiatives aimed at significantly accelerating ML model training. The ultimate goal is to drastically reduce the development cycle for new ML models and enable rapid hot-patching for issues within our deployed autonomous vehicle services.

You will be a hands-on leader, blending deep technical expertise in ML systems and performance optimization with strong leadership and people management skills. You will recruit, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

What you'll be doing:

• Team Leadership & Management:
• Build, lead, and manage a high-performing team of ML and infra engineers focused on acceleration.
• Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and career development opportunities to team members.
• Foster a collaborative and inclusive team environment.
• Define team goals, priorities, and roadmap in alignment with company objectives.
  
  
• Technical Strategy & Execution:
• Define the technical vision and strategy for ML acceleration across the organization.
• Identify and evaluate cutting-edge technologies and methodologies for speeding up ML training, including but not limited to data pipeline optimization, large scale distributed training, data loader optimization, hardware acceleration, and model optimization techniques.
• Design, develop, and implement scalable and efficient ML acceleration solutions.
  
  
• Cross-functional Collaboration:
• Collaborate closely with ML research, ML Training platform, and product teams to understand their needs and integrate acceleration solutions seamlessly.
• Communicate complex technical concepts and strategies to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Act as a technical expert and advocate for ML acceleration initiatives across the company.
  
  
• Impact & Measurement:
• Regularly measure and report on the impact of acceleration efforts.
• Continuously seek opportunities for further optimization and innovation.
  
  

What we're looking for:

• Experience:
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 5+ years focused on Machine Learning systems and model performance optimization.
• 3+ years of experience in a technical lead or management role, with a proven track record of building and leading high-performing teams.
• Extensive experience with large-scale ML model training and deployment, ideally in a production environment.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure).
  
  
• Technical Skills:
• Deep expertise in ML frameworks such as PyTorch or JAX.
• Proficiency in performance profiling and optimization techniques for Deep Neural Networks.
• Strong programming skills in Python; C++ experience is a plus.
• Knowledge of MLOps principles and practices.
  
  
• Leadership Skills:
• Exceptional leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to attract, hire, and retain top engineering talent.
• Proven ability to drive complex technical projects from conception to completion.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive, results-oriented mindset.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Mission Summary:

We are seeking an experienced and visionary Principle Level Tech Lead Manager to build and lead our new Machine Learning (ML) Acceleration team. This pivotal role will drive the strategy, development, and execution of initiatives aimed at significantly accelerating ML model training. The ultimate goal is to drastically reduce the development cycle for new ML models and enable rapid hot-patching for issues within our deployed autonomous vehicle services.

You will be a hands-on leader, blending deep technical expertise in ML systems and performance optimization with strong leadership and people management skills. You will recruit, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

What you'll be doing:

• Team Leadership & Management:
• Build, lead, and manage a high-performing team of ML and infra engineers focused on acceleration.
• Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and career development opportunities to team members.
• Foster a collaborative and inclusive team environment.
• Define team goals, priorities, and roadmap in alignment with company objectives.
  
  
• Technical Strategy & Execution:
• Define the technical vision and strategy for ML acceleration across the organization.
• Identify and evaluate cutting-edge technologies and methodologies for speeding up ML training, including but not limited to data pipeline optimization, large scale distributed training, data loader optimization, hardware acceleration, and model optimization techniques.
• Design, develop, and implement scalable and efficient ML acceleration solutions.
  
  
• Cross-functional Collaboration:
• Collaborate closely with ML research, ML Training platform, and product teams to understand their needs and integrate acceleration solutions seamlessly.
• Communicate complex technical concepts and strategies to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Act as a technical expert and advocate for ML acceleration initiatives across the company.
  
  
• Impact & Measurement:
• Regularly measure and report on the impact of acceleration efforts.
• Continuously seek opportunities for further optimization and innovation.
  
  

What we're looking for:

• Experience:
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 5+ years focused on Machine Learning systems, and model performance optimization.
• 3+ years of experience in a technical lead or management role, with a proven track record of building and leading high-performing teams.
• Extensive experience with large-scale ML model training and deployment, ideally in a production environment.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure).
  
  
• Technical Skills:
• Deep expertise in ML frameworks such as PyTorch or JAX.
• Proficiency in performance profiling and optimization techniques for Deep Neural Networks.
• Strong programming skills in Python; C++ experience is a plus.
• Knowledge of MLOps principles and practices.
  
  
• Leadership Skills:
• Exceptional leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to attract, hire, and retain top engineering talent.
• Proven ability to drive complex technical projects from conception to completion.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive, results-oriented mindset.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Mission Summary:

We are seeking an experienced and visionary Principle Level Tech Lead Manager to build and lead our new Machine Learning (ML) Acceleration team. This pivotal role will drive the strategy, development, and execution of initiatives aimed at significantly accelerating ML model training. The ultimate goal is to drastically reduce the development cycle for new ML models and enable rapid hot-patching for issues within our deployed autonomous vehicle services.

You will be a hands-on leader, blending deep technical expertise in ML systems and performance optimization with strong leadership and people management skills. You will recruit, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

What you'll be doing:

• Team Leadership & Management:
• Build, lead, and manage a high-performing team of ML and infra engineers focused on acceleration.
• Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and career development opportunities to team members.
• Foster a collaborative and inclusive team environment.
• Define team goals, priorities, and roadmap in alignment with company objectives.
  
  
• Technical Strategy & Execution:
• Define the technical vision and strategy for ML acceleration across the organization.
• Identify and evaluate cutting-edge technologies and methodologies for speeding up ML training, including but not limited to data pipeline optimization, large scale distributed training, data loader optimization, hardware acceleration, and model optimization techniques.
• Design, develop, and implement scalable and efficient ML acceleration solutions.
  
  
• Cross-functional Collaboration:
• Collaborate closely with ML research, ML Training platform, and product teams to understand their needs and integrate acceleration solutions seamlessly.
• Communicate complex technical concepts and strategies to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Act as a technical expert and advocate for ML acceleration initiatives across the company.
  
  
• Impact & Measurement:
• Regularly measure and report on the impact of acceleration efforts.
• Continuously seek opportunities for further optimization and innovation.
  
  

What we're looking for:

• Experience:
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 5+ years focused on Machine Learning systems and model performance optimization.
• 3+ years of experience in a technical lead or management role, with a proven track record of building and leading high-performing teams.
• Extensive experience with large-scale ML model training and deployment, ideally in a production environment.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure).
  
  
• Technical Skills:
• Deep expertise in ML frameworks such as PyTorch or JAX.
• Proficiency in performance profiling and optimization techniques for Deep Neural Networks.
• Strong programming skills in Python; C++ experience is a plus.
• Knowledge of MLOps principles and practices.
  
  
• Leadership Skills:
• Exceptional leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to attract, hire, and retain top engineering talent.
• Proven ability to drive complex technical projects from conception to completion.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive, results-oriented mindset.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

What we're looking for:

Mission Summary:

As a seasoned expert in Perception Capabilities, you'll field cutting-edge software products and solutions using state-of-the-art computer vision and deep learning. Your breadth of experience spans critical problem areas like detection, classification, segmentation, and tracking, along with essential supporting functions such as data engines, labeling policies, training pipelines, model optimization, simulation, and testing. You're driven by seeing your work significantly impact the product, taking initiative and owning outcomes.

You're eager to apply these skills to the perception stack of self-driving vehicles. You understand the unique challenges of safety-critical, open-world applications and are committed to ensuring engineering excellence and rigorous evaluation.

You'll devise creative solutions to complex problems, collaborating with interdisciplinary, capability-focused teams across the organization to design, implement, and validate end-to-end solutions.

What you’ll be doing:

• Lead the development and implementation of solutions that span across perception components and directly interface with downstream modules in the autonomy system.
• Analyze the performance of the perception subsystem to proactively identify potential limitations with respect to a set of system-level capabilities. Document potential hazards and lead the cross-team efforts to eliminate or mitigate them.
• Collaborate on innovative solutions to address “long tail” challenges. For example, developing techniques for synthetic data generation, advanced data mining, or leveraging language embeddings in our onboard models.
• Depending on your background and interests, you may also help optimize and deploy models to the vehicle, ensuring they operate within the constraints of our onboard hardware and meet our functional requirements and interface specifications.
• Interface with systems and safety engineers, test engineers, and data analysts to ensure appropriate requirements, test coverage, and performance metrics

What We’re Looking for:

• Master's or Ph.D. in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Robotics, or a related field; or equivalent industry experience
• Strong leadership skills in executing large, complex technical initiatives
• Track record of successful interdisciplinary work and product-focused engineering
• Broad understanding of Deep Learning algorithms, architectures, and applications
• Experience designing, training, and analyzing neural networks for applications relevant to perception
• Fluency in Python, including common libraries for deep learning (PyTorch), scientific computing, and data analysis and visualization
• Advanced knowledge of software engineering principles, including software design, source control management, build processes, code reviews, and  testing methods 
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Experience mentoring and leading others

Bonus Points:

• Experience shipping a “real” product and balancing ongoing support with next-generation innovation
• Experience developing safety-critical products or components
• Publications in relevant conferences (CVPR, ICML, NeurIPS, etc.)
• Strong programming skills in C++ and/or CUDA programming
• Experience with TensorRT and model quantization

Motional’s global headquarters are located at 100 Northern Avenue in Boston, MA. Nestled in the bustling Seaport district with sweeping views of Boston Harbor and downtown Boston, the office is located close to major transit lines and a quick walk to various restaurants and popular attractions.

Mission Summary:

Motional’s CORE team is responsible for our vehicle’s Compute and Onboard Runtime Environment. We are creating a world leading AI compute platform for autonomous vehicles. This is the system that executes the software and neural networks that make our vehicles autonomous. 

The Next-Gen Technologies team is part of CORE. We work at the intersection of software engineering, machine learning, sensors, and hardware compute platforms to evolve Motional’s on-board vehicle architecture. If you are a software engineer and love the idea of working on embedded AI hardware and software systems to create the next generation of autonomous vehicles, we would love to talk with you. 

What You’ll Be Doing:

As a senior engineer in the Next-Gen Technologies team, you will help us improve the compute performance of our current generation and next-generation autonomous driving systems through participating in full lifecycle development from idea to proofs-of-concept to production. 

Specifically, you will:

• Focus deeply on ML model deployment, integration of multiple ML models, and ML model optimization on embedded compute platforms.
• Dive deep into the full ML software stack. Analyze ML workload performance on a variety of hardware processors, optimize ML models, improve ML software, and help us continually improve our stack through the application of efficient and effective ML approaches. 
• Design, develop, test, integrate, and optimize software and tools on a variety of ML compute architectures.
• Collaborate with deep learning experts in perception, prediction, and other autonomous driving application areas to enable algorithms on GPU, NPU, and other ML accelerator architectures.
• Optimize the utilization of GPU/NPU resources and sharing of GPU/NPU access across multiple programs running on the same system.
• Lead designs to determine the needs of the system and how to best meet those needs through continually improving our ML software stack.
• Advise peers and management on technical matters.

What We’re Looking For:

• Experience with machine learning accelerators, including GPUs, NPUs, TPUs, and their programming environments, including CUDA, TensorRT, or similar technologies.
• Strong experience with modern C++ development in a Linux environment.
• Experience with parallel and high-performance computing.
• Comfortable with experimentation and evaluating different options as we work towards finding solutions that work. 
• A degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical or Electronic Engineering, or similar technical field of study, or you have equivalent knowledge gained through your practical experience.

Preferred, but not required:

• Experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow, ONNX, and/or other ML frameworks. 
• Experience with embedded systems development for ARM-based system-on-chip architectures.
• Experience working in a MLOps or DevOps environment.
• Passion for self-driving technology and its potential for positive impact on the world.
  
  

This role is hybrid from our Boston office. It requires two in-office days each week, ideally Tuesday and Thursday.

On Behaviors, you'll have the opportunity to work with world-class ML engineers and research scientists to make self-driving vehicles a reality and create positive social impact. Our team works on the tech stack responsible for understanding highly complex driving scenes and generating safe, comfortable driving trajectories for our robotaxi using the latest deep neural networks. 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.

What You’ll Be Doing:

You will be directly responsible for training, evaluation, and deployment of our ML-based scene understanding, behavior prediction, and planning models. Day to day responsibilities include:

• Designing and executing high value experiments based on collaborative input from other machine learning engineers
• Prototyping and implementing continuously improving metrics to evaluate the performance of our behavioral models across many desired scenarios and robotaxi capabilities
• Timely release of major model updates, including analysis of both off-line and on-road evaluation data
• Staying up to date with the latest trends in our fast moving industry, and proposing new architectures and network designs based on published literature
• Maintaining a high quality training and evaluation code-base, including portions of our training stack dedicated to dataset generation and evaluation

What We’re Looking For:

• In-depth understanding of common Machine Learning and Deep Learning algorithms
• Experience designing, training, and analyzing neural networks for at least one of the following applications: motion planning, object detection, sensor fusion, motion prediction, and/or multi-object tracking
• Strong track record of tackling less well-defined problems, and executing efficiently to deliver the successful outcome
• Advanced knowledge of software engineering principles including software design, source control management, build processes, code reviews, and  testing methods
• Experience with PyTorch or other python-based deep learning frameworks
• Experience working with large data sets and deriving insights from data
• Experience mentoring and collaborating with others

Education
Masters or PhD in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Physics or a related field; or equivalent industry experience

Bonus Points

• 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
• This opportunity can support remote work within the United States, with occasional travel.

Working Conditions

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to convey and detect communication

The employee occasionally required to remain stationary at times for up to 50% of working time, move in designated working areas; & operate and use office equipment

The employee may occasionally move up to 50 pounds

On Behaviors, you'll have the opportunity to work with world-class ML engineers and research scientists to make self-driving vehicles a reality and create positive social impact. Our team works on the tech stack responsible for understanding highly complex driving scenes and generating safe, comfortable driving trajectories for our robotaxi using the latest deep neural networks. 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.

What You’ll Be Doing:

You will be directly responsible for training, evaluation, and deployment of our ML-based scene understanding, behavior prediction, and planning models. Day to day responsibilities include:

• Designing and executing high value experiments based on collaborative input from other machine learning engineers
• Prototyping and implementing continuously improving metrics to evaluate the performance of our behavioral models across many desired scenarios and robotaxi capabilities
• Timely release of major model updates, including analysis of both off-line and on-road evaluation data
• Staying up to date with the latest trends in our fast moving industry, and proposing new architectures and network designs based on published literature
• Maintaining a high quality training and evaluation code-base, including portions of our training stack dedicated to dataset generation and evaluation

What We’re Looking For:

• In-depth understanding of common Machine Learning and Deep Learning algorithms
• Experience designing, training, and analyzing neural networks for at least one of the following applications: motion planning, object detection, sensor fusion, motion prediction, and/or multi-object tracking
• Strong track record of tackling less well-defined problems, and executing efficiently to deliver the successful outcome
• Advanced knowledge of software engineering principles including software design, source control management, build processes, code reviews, and  testing methods
• Experience with PyTorch or other python-based deep learning frameworks
• Experience working with large data sets and deriving insights from data
• Experience mentoring and collaborating with others

Education
Masters or PhD in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Physics or a related field; or equivalent industry experience

Bonus Points

• 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
• This opportunity can support remote work within the United States, with occasional travel.

Working Conditions

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to convey and detect communication

The employee occasionally required to remain stationary at times for up to 50% of working time, move in designated working areas; & operate and use office equipment

The employee may occasionally move up to 50 pounds

What we're looking for:

What we're looking for:

Tech Lead Manager, Planning

On our Planning team, you'll apply your passion in robotics and software development for production-ready autonomous vehicles. As the Technical Lead Manager, you will direct a team tasked with the design and implementation of motion planning software for autonomous vehicles. This position requires leadership in defining the motion planning and control systems that enable our fleet to operate securely, effectively, and with passenger comfort in intricate settings. As a leader, you will drive the development of cutting-edge motion planning algorithms, collaborate with cross-functional teams (Localization, Perception, Prediction, Controls, ML Products, and Systems Engineering), and mentor a talented group of engineers to deliver state-of-the-art solutions. If you are passionate about autonomous driving, thrive on solving challenging real-world problems, and are eager to make a significant impact in a rapidly evolving field, we want to hear from you.

Role responsibilities:

• Lead and develop a team within the motion planning organization, assuming responsibility for planning algorithm and constraint generation.
• Collaborate with other leaders to provide technical direction, making critical decisions on architectural strategies, strategic resource allocation, operational execution, and technical debt management.
• Deliver a robust and scalable planner, prioritizing safety throughout the design, prototyping, testing, deployment, and production phases.
• Adopt a metrics-driven approach to the development and enhancement of technical components.
• Advance existing planning methodologies to facilitate data-driven strategies.
• Promote diversity and inclusion in both products and personnel.
• Mentor and offer constructive feedback (technical and professional) to team members, cultivating an inclusive and collaborative work environment.
• Demonstrate initiative in generating innovative ideas, formulating a team vision, and considering the holistic robotaxi system.
• Implement and review algorithms and code, applying rigorous engineering methodologies.
• Partner with project managers to develop roadmaps and execute plans according to schedule.

What we're looking for:

• Over two years of experience in the management of a development team, with a demonstrated ability to foster career growth, mentor team members effectively, and enhance productivity.
• Masters or PhD in Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field.
• Established history of successfully delivering production-quality motion planner in a leadership capacity.
• Advanced proficiency in search algorithms.
• Experience in developing motion planning solutions with ML
• Expertise in C++ software development, Linux, and Python, with supplementary knowledge of SQL.
• Strong theoretical understanding and practical experience in motion planning under conditions of uncertainty, as well as in interactions with dynamic agents and environments.
• Knowledge of robotics algorithms in localization, perception, prediction, motion planning, and control systems for autonomous vehicles.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and management skills.

Skills appreciated

• Experience in Autonomous Vehicles or other robotics industries
• Experience using simulation tools
• Experience with Verification & Validation for safety critical systems

On our Behaviors team (Prediction and ML Planner), you will have the opportunity to work with world-class ML engineers, whose mission is to make self-driving vehicles a reality and to create a positive social impact. The Behaviors team develops ML models that learn how different agents navigate complex real-world traffic scenarios. We leverage these models to set the behavior of our self-driving vehicle, and predict the behavior of other agents such as vehicles and vulnerable road users. 

We are looking for proven leaders and technical experts who are passionate about Level 4 autonomous driving technology, excited by intellectual challenges, and interested in pursuing career growth with a fast-growing company.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Define and execute motion planning and prediction projects that improve our self-driving vehicles’ capability to safely, comfortably and legally navigate complex traffic scenarios
• Lead, manage and grow a team of engineers
• Design and lead the implementation of behavior models that leverage the latest advancements in machine learning, generative AI and reinforcement learning
• Productionize and deploy solutions onto autonomous vehicle fleets
• Collaborate with perception, simulation, data platform and integration teams to validate and enhance your products’ on-road performance
• Communicate strategies, progress and challenges to executive leadership

What We’re Looking for:

• Masters or Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related technical field; or equivalent industry experience
• Proven leadership skills at executing large, complex technical initiatives
• Extensive experience managing and leading engineers
• Experience with deep learning frameworks such as TensorFlow or PyTorch
• Fluency in Python, including standard scientific computing libraries
• Proven track record of designing, developing and deploying ML solutions for autonomous vehicles or robotics
• Advanced knowledge of software engineering principles including software design, source control management, build processes, code reviews, testing methods 
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Bonus Points:

• Experience with embedded systems and real-time optimization, especially in the autonomous driving industry
• Experience with state of the art generative AI, and/or reinforcement learning, paradigms
• Proven track record of publications in relevant conferences (CVPR, ICML, NeurIPS, ICCV, ICL, etc.)
• Strong programming skills in C++ and/or CUDA programming

About The Role

The AI innovation team at Agility works on building and deploying next-generation robot foundation models and end-to-end policies on humanoid robots. Your goal will be to develop and test cutting-edge methods for imitation learning and reinforcement learning on humanoid robots, in order to establish the techniques necessary for humanoid robots to perform different real-world tasks. You will work on a team, running experiments on humanoid robots, and will research and implement methods which can be transferred into production.

About the Work

• Design, train, and deploy robust policies for locomotion, manipulation, and dynamic interactions with the environment.
• Develop core reinforcement learning infrastructure, including scalable training pipelines and evaluation frameworks.
• Design and implement new simulation environments and tasks to support training and deployment of control policies.
• Develop, design, and test imitation learning methods
• Collaborate with Robotics Software and AI engineering teams to develop policies which can be transferred to production

About You

• 3+ years of experience developing and deploying learning-from-demonstration
• Strong programming skills in Python, with proficiency in deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch.
• Experience with modern learning-from-demonstration tools like DiffusionPolicy
• Experience with robot data collection, training, and testing on hardware to perform manipulation tasks.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment to deliver safe, high-quality software
• MS in Robotics, Computer Science, or a related field.

Bonus Points

• PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Publications in top ML or robotics conferences (e.g. NeurIPS, ICML, CoRL, RSS, ICRA).
• Familiarity with robot simulation environments (e.g. Mujoco, Isaac Sim) and sim-to-real transfer techniques.
• Experience with modern reinforcement learning techniques for locomotion, manipulation, and whole-body control
• Experience with writing performant, high quality software in C++

This a hybrid position based out of one of our Salem, Pittsburgh, or Fremont offices.

The final salary offered to a successful candidate will be dependent on several factors that may include but are not limited to: market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. This range may change based on geographical location and may be modified in the future.

About the Role:

In the ML Data Understanding team, our mission is to provide trusted and useful data to efficiently power all of Stack's ML applications end-to-end from mining to training to safety evaluation. We work hand in hand with AV autonomy teams to provide cutting edge solutions to all their data needs, working across data engineering, mining, modeling and infrastructure. In particular, we provide services to find (data mining), curate (datasets), annotate (data labeling), search and serve (high throughput data access) data for all ML needs.

• Data Mining: We are building a framework and infrastructure to find interesting events quickly and flexibly. As part of this mission, you would be setting the direction for and helping us build an inference service using LLMs, open-world models and vector databases.
• Semantic Search for Data Mining: We are building the infrastructure of a highly scalable semantic search service for multimodal data to find interesting events quickly and flexibly. As part of this mission, you would be setting the direction for and helping us build an inference service using the latest AI models & approaches. 
• Dataset management for training: We are building state of the art infrastructure to support machine learning training and inference workloads using OSS components such as Ray, Spark, Lance and Iceberg.

Responsibilities:

• Build state-of-art multimodal data mining and semantic search solutions to power AV product development.
• Develop data understanding platform infrastructure for real-time querying/vector databases and batch/stream processing using technologies like Ray, Spark, Lance, or similar.
• Deliver end-to-end data mining solutions that span onboard (C++) and offboard (ML & Data Infra) infrastructure to accelerate AV product development. 
• Develop e2e solution for real-time semantic search services (text/images/videos) and vector DBs.
• Discover and identify key issues in existing ML infra and proactively improve system performance.
• Build low latency/high throughput batch or stream processing pipelines.
• Drive technical discussions across multiple orgs and deliver solutions on a timely basis.
• Architect and tune ETL pipelines to maximize GPU/CPU/Ram utilization.
• Write readable and high-performance Python/C++ code.

Qualifications: 

• Experience with both ML platforms and building ML-based applications (modeling experience is a bonus).
• Proven track record of building scalable, reliable infrastructure in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across teams.
• Experience building or using ML infrastructure for a large number of customer teams.
• Deep understanding of design trade-offs with the ability to articulate those trade-offs and achieve alignment with others.
• Experience in building ML models or infrastructure in domains such as autonomous vehicles, perception, and decision-making (desirable but not required).
• Experience with model training, model optimization, or large data processing pipelines.
• Prior experience in autonomous vehicles (AV) is a plus.
• 6+ years of experience with:
  • Multimodal data indexing and inference pipelines.
  • Building semantic search service, embedding generation for video/images and vector DB.
  • Large scale ML pipelines (Airflow/Flyte) and model optimization.

About the Role:

The Perception Architecture team is responsible for tackling complex, cross-cutting issues in Stack AV’s approach to perception development and accelerating our delivery of perception capabilities. Many problems in the self-driving trucking industry are not well represented in the literature, requiring novel approaches or formulations to tackle challenging perception problems for the product.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will drive the development of foundational ML architecture and systematic approaches to challenging, cross-cutting perception problems to ensure the self-driving system scales robustly and efficiently. This role will work closely with other teams to identify pain points and forward looking challenges, develop novel experiments to define future direction, and collaborate with other AI teams to convert these discoveries into product.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the technical direction of the Perception Architecture team and the broader perception organization.
• Design and develop core machine learning components and architectures that enable the perception system to scale and reliably address complex, long-tail driving scenarios.
• Drive the initial implementation and prototyping of key architectural decisions, such as handling long tail challenges or long range detection.
• Contribute to the improvement of model frameworks, architecture, and data pipelines to eliminate development bottlenecks and accelerate model iteration.
• Lead challenging technical topics and build consensus across sister teams (e.g., dynamic world, static world) and stakeholders to ensure autonomy-wide alignment.

Qualifications:

• BS (with 6+ years of experience), MS (with 5+ years of experience), or PhD (with 3+ years of experience) in a perception-related field, such as Robotics, Computer Vision, or Machine Learning.
• Extensive experience architecting, training, and deploying deep learning models into real-world, safety-critical environments.
• Track record of driving applied research or engineering projects from conception and experimentation to successful productization.
• Strong experience in software engineering, machine learning algorithm design, and building data/metrics pipelines for ML development.
• Fluency in Python and hands-on experience with C++.
• Experience delivering detection, segmentation, tracking, or other perception solutions for real-time robotic applications, with prior experience in sensor fusion being highly desirable.

About the Role:

The Trajectory Generation and Controls team owns the trajectory generation, optimization and controls components that power how autonomous trucks drive. You are a great fit if you have real world experience with Motion Planning, Optimization and/or Controls, as well as a proven record deploying real-time, safety critical software to production.  In this role you will work in all phases of the software development cycle, from solution design to implementation and deployment. You will collaborate with various teams in Autonomy, Systems Engineering and Operations, fostering a culture of safety, principled engineering and a customer oriented mindset.

Responsibilities:

• Own the delivery of TG&C features from design to integration, providing a well controlled, safe and comfortable vehicle experience.
• Provide input to team roadmaps and ensure timely delivery of features. 
• Work closely with systems engineers to ensure a safe, well tested product is delivered.
• Write state of the art software, using modern C++ and Python. Make extensive use of unit testing, simulation, and log simulation.
• Work closely with other Autonomy teams (Constraint Generation, Trajectory Selection, World Fusion, Prediction, ...) to design and deploy robust solutions, encompassing all aspects of autonomous driving. 
• Be involved in design and iteration exercises, and help to align stakeholders by using strong presentation and communication skills.

Qualifications: 

• BS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or closely related field. MS or PhD is a plus.
• 5+ years of software engineering experience. 
• Experience building motion planning and/or control systems for real world applications. Experience with large ground vehicles is a plus.
• Knowledge and experience with vehicle dynamics, system identification and real-time control algorithms. Experience with tooling and metrics is a plus.
• Experience with optimal control or dynamic optimization, especially in the context of model predictive control or real-time trajectory generation.
• Fluent in modern C++.
• Experience with Python.