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Principal Engineer Team Lead - Trajectory Planning Lead

1 hour, 39 minutes ago
United States
Full-time
Lead
Technical Lead
Software Development
Linux Machine Learning Python SQL
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Motional

Motional

Motional is a leading company in driverless technology and autonomous vehicles, leveraging decades of industry expertise to develop and deploy safe and reliable autonomous vehicles. With a powerful DNA combining Aptiv's automotive technology and Hyunda...

Automotive
1K-5K
Founded 2020
$20M raised
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Description

  • Lead and scale a trajectory planning team, setting technical direction, execution strategy, and organizational scope.
  • Drive commercial launch readiness by improving on-road driving behavior across safety, comfort, and assertiveness.
  • Use metrics-driven methods to measure and improve fleet performance.
  • Manage computational efficiency and real-time latency for trajectory generation algorithms.
  • Lead rapid triage and root-cause analysis of critical fleet incidents and convert edge cases into algorithm updates and validation sets.
  • Oversee complex cross-team initiatives from design through deployment with strong testing and validation discipline.
  • Coordinate with peer leads on architectural decisions, strategic investments, tactical execution, and technical debt reduction.
  • Conduct rigorous design and code reviews while mentoring engineers and supporting their professional growth.
  • Define and negotiate quarterly and annual technical roadmaps aligned with autonomy milestones.
  • Partner with cross-functional teams including Planning, Perception, Prediction, Localization, ML Products, Systems Engineering, and project managers.

Requirements

  • 2+ years of experience managing high-performing development teams.
  • Track record of mentoring, coaching, and inspiring engineers while improving team productivity.
  • Experience delivering production-quality algorithms in autonomous vehicles, robotics, aerospace, or a similar high-stakes environment.
  • Ability to define and defend a balanced technical roadmap for both short-term delivery and long-term architecture.
  • Deep expertise in numerical optimization and optimal control.
  • Strong proficiency with model predictive control, nonlinear programming, and convex optimization for real-time trajectory generation.
  • Significant experience with motion planning under uncertainty and interaction-aware planning with dynamic agents and complex constraints.
  • Experience with machine learning-based planning approaches is a strong plus.
  • Strong systems intuition across perception, prediction, control, and actuation in robotics.
  • Expertise in modern C++ development in a Linux environment for high-performance, real-time, safety-critical code.
  • Fluency in Python for prototyping, data analysis, and visualization.
  • Experience with AI-augmented development workflows for large-scale Modern C++ codebases is strongly preferred.
  • Experience with SQL or big-data frameworks for fleet-scale performance analysis is a significant plus.
  • Exceptional communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts for cross-functional and executive audiences.
  • Master’s or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical/Mechanical Engineering, or a related quantitative field.

Benefits

  • Salary range of $240,000 to $330,000 USD base pay.
  • Additional compensation may include a bonus.
  • Additional compensation may include company equity.
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • 401(k) with company match.
  • Health savings accounts.
  • Life insurance.
  • Pet insurance.
  • Hybrid schedule with in-office time in Boston, Pittsburgh, or Las Vegas, or the option to work fully remote.

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