Principal Engineer, Verification & Validation Lead

4 days, 3 hours ago
Full-time
Lead
Quality Assurance and Testing
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

Description

  • Influence requirements development from a testability, coverage, and problem-definition perspective.
  • Educate perception engineers and champion verification and validation best practices.
  • Collaborate with autonomy and systems engineers to define problem taxonomies, critical covariates, and performance metrics.
  • Create dashboards and automate reporting to support analysis and decision-making.
  • Establish coverage targets, identify data and testing gaps, and validate the overall test strategy.
  • Develop actionable test plans across multiple test modalities and create critical tests as needed.
  • Coordinate cross-functionally to scale test creation and achieve coverage goals.
  • Evaluate limitations of existing tools and simulation technologies and advocate for improvements to testing automation.
  • Serve as the primary bridge between Perception and Systems Readiness and Performance.
  • Communicate the system-level impact of perception failure modes clearly across the organization.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in a STEM field preferred.
  • Experience leading verification and validation for a safety-critical product.
  • V&V experience with a self-driving vehicle strongly preferred.
  • General knowledge of the self-driving vehicle software stack.
  • Understanding of simulation technologies used in autonomy development.
  • Experience creating and executing V&V test strategies.
  • Experience with test set creation, test organization, requirements linking, deficiency linking, and structured reporting.
  • Strong understanding of how performance analysis informs risk assessment and go/no-go decisions.
  • Proficiency in Python for light scripting, database queries, and automation.
  • Familiarity with dashboarding software, AI/agentic coding tools, Git, Buildkite, and Jenkins.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Demonstrated collaboration, leadership, innovation, and creativity.
  • Track record of reliability, trustworthiness, and delivering impact.
  • Ability to frame safety discussions within a grounded risk-assessment framework.
  • Entrepreneurial experience or evidence of being self-driven, adaptable, and results-oriented preferred.
  • Patents or other evidence of innovation and creativity preferred.

Benefits

  • Base salary range of $200,000 to $275,000 USD.
  • Additional compensation may include a bonus and company equity.
  • Eligible candidates may participate in Motional’s benefits program.
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • 401(k) with company match.
  • Health savings accounts.
  • Life insurance.
  • Pet insurance.
  • Hybrid schedule with in-office collaboration in Boston, Pittsburgh, or Las Vegas, or fully remote work option.

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