Senior Software Engineer, ML Evaluation

Motional is a driverless technology company making autonomous vehicles a safe, reliable, and accessible reality. They are seeking a highly skilled Senior Data Analysis Engineer to develop and validate metrics for autonomous vehicle performance and to innovate large scale data analysis systems.

Responsibilities:

• Work with ML Engineers and Autonomy Software Developers to develop new data analysis metrics and KPI’s for the validation of the autonomous vehicle performance
• Drive innovation by researching and developing new large scale data analysis systems
• Own large-scale data analysis workflows that surface unexpected impacts of planned and unplanned changes to the ML models and software
• Work with annotation specialists to build high-quality evaluation datasets
• Provide statistical depth on model performance & generalization through rigorous error and change analysis
• Read, understand, and modify complex codebases written in Python and SQL

Requirements:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field
• Strong programming skills in Python and scientific computing frameworks (NumPy, Pandas, etc.)
• Experience in machine learning, data mining, and statistical analysis
• Experience with large-scale data processing and distributed computing technologies
• Strong communication and software development skills: goal setting, design documentation, test frameworks, collaborative cross team development
• Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related field
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure
• Experience with machine learning in the autonomous driving domain
• Experience with ML frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX
• Familiarity with C++ and comfort reading and navigating existing C++ code
• Basic fluency with modern web frameworks and Go
• Publications or contributions to the AI/ML community