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[Remote] Principal Engineer, Team Lead - Behaviors

🌍 Remote · United States 💼 Full-time

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Motional is a driverless technology company developing autonomous vehicles to make transportation safer, more reliable, and more accessible. The Principal Engineer, Team Lead will lead Behaviors team initiatives involving motion planning, prediction, and machine learning models for autonomous vehicles, while managing engineers and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deploy and improve on-road solutions.

Responsibilities

  • 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

Skills

  • 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
  • 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

Benefits

  • Medical
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401k with a company match
  • Health saving accounts
  • Life insurance
  • Pet insurance

Company Overview

  • Motional offers an autonomous driving platform for robotaxi providers, fleet operators, and automotive manufacturers. It is a sub-organization of Hyundai Motor Group. It was founded in 2020, and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is https://motional.com.
  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • Motional has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 45 in 2026, 55 in 2025, 110 in 2024, 57 in 2023, 110 in 2022, 100 in 2021, 7 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
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