Senior Engineer, Autonomy ML Systems

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Senior Engineer evaluating machine learning subsystems for autonomous vehicles at Motional, a leader in driverless technology. Collaborating to enhance performance and ensure safe deployments.

Posted 4/21/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $125,000 - $167,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Python

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Define, prototype, and validate advanced metrics that bring new insights to model performance evaluation for autonomy subsystems (mainly focused on perception, prediction, and planning).
Assess coverage of existing training and testing, then curate test sets that sufficiently capture Motional’s intended deployment operational design domain, across many axes (agent types, interaction types, map/spatial, etc.).
Evaluate machine learning model performance against these metrics and tests.
Assess system-level performance and subsystem contribution to system behavior through large-scale data analysis of on-road and simulation events.
Define performance requirements for autonomy subsystems, and supporting analyses required to establish these targets.
Coordinate subsystem-level evaluation with other system-level testing efforts across the systems team in support of the safety case and safety claims.

Requirements

What you’ll need

An engineer who has demonstrated strong cross-functional collaborative skills and is highly self-starting. This is a highly cooperative role across systems, autonomy, infrastructure, and other parts of the organization.
Proven engineer with 5+ years of experience working on high-tech safety critical systems or robotics, ideally from a systems, robotics, or similar background.
Master’s degree in relevant fields (systems, robotics, ML, CS, etc.) or Bachelor’s degree plus significant relevant in-field experience.
Skilled Python developer, familiarity with analyzing the large scale data required to train and test ML models.
Experience designing unique metrics that capture key aspects of system behavior and are used to enhance model development.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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401k with a company match
health saving accounts
life insurance
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Hard Skills & Tools

Pythonmachine learningdata analysismetrics designmodel performance evaluationtesting and validationlarge-scale data analysisautonomy subsystemsroboticssystems engineering

Soft Skills

cross-functional collaborationself-startingcooperationcommunicationproblem-solvinganalytical thinkingteamworkleadershipadaptabilityinitiative