Senior Engineer
- Salary
- $168,000 - $244,000
- Level
- Senior
- Work type
- Remote · US only
Not stated in the posting: visa.
Open. First seen 3 October 2026.
About the role
What You’ll Do:
- Work on large-scale solutions for mining challenging driving scenarios to boost learned model performance across various autonomous driving tasks.
- Collaborate with ML (Machine Learning) infrastructure teams and contribute to workflows for continuous learning through iterative mining, error analysis, training and deployment.
- Research and develop methods for extracting uncertainty and informativeness indicators to automatically mine for challenging scenes and analyze model performance.
- Provide statistical depth and insights on model uncertainty, generalization and robustness.
- Conduct deep learning experiments and write technical reports.
- Provide guidance to junior researchers on research projects and design document reviews.
- May work remotely from any U.S. state.
May work remotely from any U.S. state.
What You Bring:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, or a closely related technical field;
- Plus five years of post-bachelor’s industry experience.
- Experience must include:
- industry experience with Python, production-quality software development, applying solid software engineering principles such as configuration management, source control, build processes, code reviews, testing methodologies, app containerization, and continuous integration, core AWS services (S3, RDS, Athena, Redshift or EKS), and DBMS (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB or SQLlite);
- industry experience writing SQL queries for data analysis purposes, data modeling and dashboarding for data analysis purposes (Looker or Redash), architecting and shipping high-performance & large-scale distributed systems deployed in real world robotics applications, conducting system & software design, project management and practicing agile methodologies.
This position is eligible for employee referral program.
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.
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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
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$168,000—$244,000 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.
What this role asks for
In most of Motional's ads
Python
Named in most of its open postings, whatever the role.
47% of this description is written for the role. The rest is Motional's standard text, folded away below.
Read against Motional's other open postings on this site.
The team: Infrastructure HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 25 open in Infrastructure. 7 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in August: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Python (18 of 25), AWS (16 of 25), Machine Learning (10 of 25), C++ (8 of 25), Bazel (7 of 25), GCP (7 of 25), Golang (7 of 25)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Senior Software Engineer, HIL Infrastructure posted Oct 15
- Senior Onboard Vehicle Network Engineer posted Oct 15
- Senior Onboard Vehicle Network Engineer posted Oct 15
- Senior Onboard Vehicle Network Engineer posted Oct 14
- Senior Principal Engineer Team Lead - Fleet Software Platform posted Oct 14
- Principal Software Engineer Team Lead - Partner Systems & Integrations posted Sep 30
- Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform posted Sep 24
- Software Engineer - Engineering Enablement posted Sep 17
- Senior Full Stack Engineer, Data Mining posted Sep 15
- Senior Technical Program Manager, Release & Integration posted Sep 15
- Senior Release Engineer posted Sep 9
- Senior Software Engineer, ML Infrastructure posted Aug 14
- Senior Technical Program Manager, Autonomy posted Aug 3
- Staff Front End Engineer posted Jul 20
- Senior Software Engineer, Engineering Enablement posted Jul 10
- Principal Technical Lead Manager - AI Data Applications posted Jul 7
- Senior Engineer, ML Data Services posted Jun 29
- Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Data Mining posted Jun 22
- Senior C++ Software Engineer/Engineer, Cloud Apps (Embedded) posted Jun 12
- Software Engineering Manager -Data Platform posted Jun 1
- Machine Learning Systems Engineer posted May 11
- ML Systems Engineer, ML Acceleration posted Mar 10
- Staff Software Engineer, Command Center posted Jan 28
- Principal Engineer, Data & ML Infrastructure posted Aug 15
From the team and dates on Motional's own job board.
Other openings for this role
3 open postings for this role in Boston, Massachusetts, United States; Remote U.S., first posted 3 October 2026. The company is likely hiring for more than one position. None has been taken down and posted again.
- 3 October 2026 – open
- 3 October 2026 – open
- 3 October 2026 – open (this posting)
Salary context
11 other open postings titled Senior Engineer state a salary: median USD 140,000 to USD 200,000 a year.
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