Principal Engineer, Team Lead- Data Platform

Posted 3 Days Ago
Hiring Remotely in USA
Remote
175K-234K Annually
5-7 Years Experience
Artificial Intelligence • Automotive • Machine Learning • Transportation
Join us as we make driverless vehicles a safe, reliable, and accessible reality.
The Role
Lead a team of engineers in building and maintaining large-scale data processing and transformation pipelines, focusing on autonomous vehicle data. Responsible for data extraction, transformation, and building interfaces for easy data access. Hands-on role with people management responsibilities.
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Mission Summary

We are seeking a talented Principal Engineer to lead a team by building, improving, and maintaining robust large scale data processing and transformation pipelines. The team is responsible for building scalable pipelines to perform extraction of information from AV (autonomous vehicle) logs, transformation of data into different formats that can be consumed by downstream services, and for building interfaces to enable easy access to the data. We deal with data on the petabyte scale and provide critical functions to improve the development of a reliable AV. This is a hands-on role with people management responsibilities. 

If you are a strong hands-on individual contributor and have a passion to oversee a small team of engineers, we encourage you to apply! 

What You'll Be Doing

  • Lead and provide mentorship to a team of engineers both technically and professionally
  • Manage and drive team timelines, project commitments, and roadmap deliverables
  • Work closely with users, leadership, and stakeholders to align and coordinate product design, project execution, and operational usage in setting and achieving objectives and key results.
  • Design, build, and maintain scalable data processing and access with cloud ETL technology.
  • Implement interfaces to enable self service data pipelines
  • Write high quality, maintainable code to process terabytes of data 
  • Lead and champion high-level system design and quality code reviews/technical contributions.
  • Ability to take a strong sense of ownership and responsibility for mentoring engineers

What We're Looking For

  • 5+ years of professional experience as a data engineer or data pipeline engineer
  • BS or MS in Computer Science or related field
  • Expertise with Python programming
  • Expertise with AWS services and solutions (EKS, Lambda, ETL) 
  • Experience with distributed system design and development
  • Experience leading projects from end to end, designing and delivering and production stages 
  • Strong written and oral communication skills
  • Comfortable working in a fast-paced, continuous delivery environment

Bonus Points (not required): 

  • Experience with Infrastructure Monitoring
  • Experience working in cross-functional development teams 
  • Experience working with microservices
  • Experience with people management

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors including but not limited to specific skills, experience and expertise, role location, certifications, licenses, and business needs. The estimated compensation range listed in this job posting reflects base salary only. This role may include additional forms of compensation such as a bonus or company equity. The recruiter assigned to this role can share more information about the specific compensation and benefit details associated with this role during the hiring process. 

Candidates for certain positions are eligible to participate in Motional’s benefits program. Motional’s benefits include but are not limited to medical, dental, vision, 401k with a company match, health saving accounts, life insurance, pet insurance, and more.

Salary Range

$175,000$234,000 USD

Motional is a driverless technology company making autonomous vehicles a safe, reliable, and accessible reality. We’re driven by something more.

Our journey is always people first.

We aren't just developing driverless cars; we're creating safer roadways, more equitable transportation options, and making our communities better places to live, work, and connect. Our team is made up of engineers, researchers, innovators, dreamers and doers, who are creating a technology with the potential to transform the way we move.

Higher purpose, greater impact.

We’re creating first-of-its-kind technology that will transform transportation. To do so successfully, we must design for everyone in our cities and on our roads. We believe in building a great place to work through a progressive, global culture that is diverse, inclusive, and ensures people feel valued at every level of the organization. Diversity helps us to see the world differently; it’s not only good for our business, it’s the right thing to do.  

Scale up, not starting up.

Our team is behind some of the industry's largest leaps forward, including the first fully-autonomous cross-country drive in the U.S, the launch of the world's first robotaxi pilot, and operation of the world's longest-standing public robotaxi fleet. We’re driven to scale; we’re moving towards commercialization of our technology, and we need team members who are ready to embrace change and challenges.

Formed as a joint venture between Hyundai Motor Group and Aptiv, Motional is fundamentally changing how people move through their lives. Headquartered in Boston, Motional has operations in the U.S and Asia. For more information, visit  www.Motional.com and follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.


Motional AD Inc. is an EOE. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. To comply with Federal Law, we participate in E-Verify. All newly-hired employees are queried through this electronic system established by the DHS and the SSA to verify their identity and employment eligibility.

Top Skills

Python
The Company
Santa Monica, CA
765 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2020

What We Do

Our team is commercializing a world-class driverless system. The Motional team is behind some of the industry’s largest leaps forward in the last decade, including the first fully-autonomous cross-country drive in the U.S, the launch of the world’s first robotaxi pilot, and operation of the world’s most-established public robotaxi fleet. Strategically formed by Hyundai Motor Group, one of the world’s largest vehicle manufacturers offering smart mobility solutions, and Aptiv, a global technology leader in advanced safety, electrification, and vehicle connectivity, Motional is fundamentally changing how people move through their lives.

Why Work With Us

Our leadership team has been working in this industry for decades and includes renown early innovators in driverless technology. We are creating a future where transportation is safe, reliable, and accessible. Join our team in revolutionizing the industry that will change how the world moves.

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