Principal Technical Lead Manager

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3 Locations
Remote or Hybrid
176K-242K Annually
Expert/Leader
Artificial Intelligence • Automotive • Machine Learning • Transportation
Join us as we make driverless vehicles a safe, reliable, and accessible reality.
The Role
Leads and grows a visualization engineering team while owning roadmap investments, cross-team standards, delivery, and collaboration. Architects scalable frontend systems using React, TypeScript, and Vue; builds mission-critical, data-heavy web applications; drives UX, performance, maintainability, and rapid product iteration. Partners with ML, UX, data, and annotation teams, mentors engineers, documents technical designs, and works directly with customers to identify foundational needs and deliver solutions.
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Mission Summary:

Motional is seeking a Principal Technical Lead Manager for its Web Visualization Tooling team.  This role will directly lead our visualization experiences, both from tooling and end user perspectives. Motional’s suite of web tools and visualization applications allows us to improve our feedback loops for machine learning (ML) engineers, improve the performance and adaptability of our autonomous vehicle (AV) system, and ensure that our internal and external users have best-in-class capabilities available to them.

Roles and Responsibilities:

  • Lead and grow the visualization engineering team
  • Ensure that our Data Products roadmap includes the necessary investments at the right times
  • Drive cross-team standards and best practices for web development
  • Own cross team collaboration, ensuring deliveries are made on time and effectively
  • Architect and scale a modern frontend ecosystem using React, TypeScript, and Vue.
  • Collaborate closely with ML, frontend, UX, data services, data mining, and data annotation teams to align tooling with real-world workflows
  • Build mission-critical UI systems used by a variety of internal customers.
  • Design initiative experiences for complex, data-heavy workflows.
  • Drive best practices around performance, scalability and maintainability
  • Ship quickly and iterate in a product driven environment.

Required Qualifications:

  • Experience leading a team of engineers working in both office and remote environments
  • Proven success in scoping, creating breakdowns, and tracking progress for software development projects
  • Desire to design and build user-facing visual applications, and a passion for good UX.
  • Strong proficiency in React, Typescript and modern frontend architecture
  • Proficiency in Vue
  • Strong product sense with a focus on UX and usability.
  • Ability to work autonomously and independently, and to drive development initiatives with little oversight. High aptitude for learning and organization skills.
  • Great interpersonal skills and ability to mentor and (on occasion) delegate to other engineers at various levels of relative seniority.
  • Established success in technical design and documentation habits
  • Capability to work directly with customers to identify foundational needs and provide solutions.

Preferred(not required):

  • Demonstrated project management expertise / advanced hands-on understanding of project management agility and operational excellence.
  • A love for the continuous delivery of value.
  • Exposure to backend systems (Node, Python)
  • Experience in Game Development or 3D Visualization

 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.

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
$176,000$242,000 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, 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.

Skills Required

  • Experience leading an engineering team across office and remote environments
  • Experience scoping, breaking down, and tracking software development projects
  • Experience or strong interest in designing and building user-facing visual applications
  • Strong proficiency in React
  • Strong proficiency in TypeScript and modern frontend architecture
  • Proficiency in Vue
  • Strong product sense focused on UX and usability
  • Ability to work autonomously and drive initiatives with limited oversight
  • Strong learning, organization, and interpersonal skills
  • Ability to mentor and delegate to engineers at varying seniority levels
  • Established technical design and documentation practices
  • Ability to work directly with customers to identify needs and provide solutions
  • Project management expertise and advanced understanding of agile project management and operational excellence
  • Exposure to backend systems such as Node.js or Python
  • Experience in game development or 3D visualization

Motional Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Motional and has not been reviewed or approved by Motional.

  • Healthcare Strength Multiple medical plan options (HDHP and PPO) with dental and vision, plus complimentary mental‑health counseling through Modern Health and 24/7 EAP support, point to comprehensive coverage administered via Aetna. Health choices are generally characterized as solid and comparable to larger tech peers, with typical plan tradeoffs.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth Flexible PTO, paid holidays, and a company‑wide shutdown between Christmas and New Year’s indicate generous time‑off policies. The ability to work outside one’s home country for up to 60 days per year adds flexibility, though practical use can depend on team norms.
  • Retirement Support A 401(k) with company matching alongside employer‑paid life, AD&D, and disability coverage provides strong baseline financial security. Additional protections and conveniences such as identity‑theft coverage and commuter/travel support complement the core retirement benefit.

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The Company
HQ: Boston, MA
765 Employees
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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