Staff Front End Engineer

Mission Summary:

Motional is seeking a Staff Front End Engineer expert for its Web Visualization Tooling team. This role will directly contribute through the creation of critical web tooling and visualization that allows us to improve our feedback loops for machine learning (ML) engineers and improve the performance and adaptability of our autonomous vehicle (AV) system.

What You'll Be Doing:

• 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.

What We're Looking For:

• 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 with high ownership and autonomy.
• 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.
• A well-established technical design and documentation habit
• Capability to work directly with customers to identify foundational needs and provide solutions.

Bonus Points (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.

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