Senior Full Stack Engineer

Motional is a driverless technology company making autonomous vehicles a safe, reliable, and accessible reality. They are seeking a Senior Full Stack Engineer to contribute to the creation of web tooling and visualization that enhances feedback loops for machine learning engineers and improves the performance of their autonomous vehicle system.

Responsibilities:

• Own and expand backend implementation and architecture of our visualization tooling suite (e.g., data mining quality assurance, operations and log ingestion, annotation pipelines, telemetry viewers)
• Collaborate closely with ML, frontend, UX, data services, data mining, and data annotation teams to align tooling with real-world workflows
• Support scalable, performance APIs and services for visual development, debugging, and annotation systems
• Help mature internal standards, observability, and deployment processes for our backend stack
• Maintain and mature the team’s CI/CD infrastructure and process

Requirements:

• Desire to design and build user-facing visual applications, and a passion for good UX
• Strong proficiency in backend development with NodeJS and Python
• Solid understanding and practical experience with AWS CDK in TypeScript
• Ability to own and expand backend implementation and architecture of visualization tooling suite
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams in diverse and highly technical domains of expertise
• Experience in supporting scalable, high-performance APIs and services for visual development, debugging, and annotation systems
• Ability to help mature internal standards, observability, and deployment processes for backend stack
• Experience in maintaining and maturing CI/CD infrastructure and processes
• 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
• Experience with full-stack and front-end development using NextJS and React
• Demonstrated project management expertise / advanced hands-on understanding of project management agility and operational excellence
• A love for the continuous delivery of value