Motional
Principal Software Team Lead, On-Vehicle Visualization & Tools
Job Summary
This role involves leading the On-Vehicle Visualization & Tools Team to develop and improve visualization, log playback, and in-car operator displays used by safety drivers, vehicle operators, and test engineers. The candidate will provide technical leadership, define strategies, and collaborate with cross-functional teams in a fast-paced environment. Requirements include extensive experience in software development, team management, and familiarity with robotics systems, Linux, and scripting languages. The position emphasizes developing tools critical to the autonomy development and vehicle monitoring processes.
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Mission Summary
We are looking for someone who is passionate about developing high performance applications, and delivering quality software. You will be leading the On-Vehicle Visualization & Tools Team who is responsible for designing, implementing, fielding and improving visualization tooling, log playback tooling, as well as all in-car operator displays for our safety drivers, vehicle operators, and test engineers.
Your team develops tools that are used to view data produced by the Motional self driving vehicles, as well as simulations. Your tools are critical to the autonomy developer building software as well as the operations team monitoring the vehicles performance. This team works closely with various software and and R&D teams to come up with custom and standard solutions to improve visualizations.
What you'll be doing:
- Provide technical leadership to the team
- Be responsible for the professional growth of your team members.
- Collaborate with customer teams to develop tool roadmaps
- Define technical strategy and tooling solutions supporting autonomy, software test and system validation customer teams.
- Lead cross functional initiatives building comprehensive testing solutions
- Collaborate with designers, autonomy engineers, cloud engineers
- Assisting Developers, Test Engineers, simulation designers, and Vehicle Operators
What we're looking for:
- You’re able to leverage insights to effectively manage geographically dispersed teams
- 5+ years professional experience in software development
- 3+ years professional experience leading software development teams
- Experience with Linux and scripting languages (Bash/Shell, Python)
- Experience in using issue tracking and configuration management tools (Atlassian Confluence, Jira, Bitbucket, Git)
- Demonstrated problem solving skills and ability to think logically and remove bias from evaluation of problems
- High level of accuracy and attention to details
- Strong troubleshooting, debugging, and analytical skills
- Desire to work in a fast-paced startup environment
- Flexible schedule and willing to attend evening/night meetings.
- Basic understanding of robotics systems including sensors, actuators, mechanical and software systems.
- Bachelor's or higher degree in Engineering, such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, Robotics, or equivalent knowledge and work experience
Preferred, but not required:
- Good understanding of robotics systems including sensors, actuators, mechatronics and software systems
- Experience with autonomous driving, robotics systems or other distributed systems
- Experience with building automated tests, test automation frameworks, tools, and/or infrastructure
- Experience with integration of automated test scripts with DevOps CI/CD pipeline
- Experience in technical writing, technical drawings and documentation of mechatronics systems is preferred
- Experience with testing of ADAS subsystems and self-driving features
- SW/HW/system integration tests and building benches
- Data visualization, database manipulation using Python
- Experience working with Jenkins (or other CI system)
- Familiarity with Linux/Unix environment
- Familiarity with Docker
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.
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.
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Motional harnesses deep industry experience in our mission to develop and deploy autonomous vehicles and to make driverless technology safe and reliable.
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