Autonomy Systems Engineer - Perception & Prediction
Mission Summary:
Join us and help us solve some of the most challenging technical problems facing the autonomous driving industry. You will help redefine safe transportation by directly contributing to Motional’s driverless future.
As part of our Perception-Prediction autonomy systems team, you will use systematic analysis and empirical methods to understand the performance of Motional’s perception and prediction models, and their impact on the comfort and safety of the driverless vehicle. You will help improve and validate the robustness, performance, and safety of our driverless vehicle.
What you'll be doing:
- You will work with our detection, tracking, and prediction teams to improve perception and prediction evaluation pipelines. You will help derive performance targets and metrics that ensure driverless safety, while delivering performance and comfort
- Help establish methods to validate perception and prediction subsystems against our driverless readiness criteria, which you will help define
- Develop methods to improve the performance of existing online and offline perception and prediction pipelines, and collaborate cross-functionally to understand, document, and make tradeoffs between potential solutions
- You will become comfortable with our development tool chain to perform hands-on tests and analyses to identify issues and/or weaknesses in our system and recommend potential solutions. You will derive offline solutions to improve the model performance, and online solutions to monitor and mitigate any hazard associated with the weaknesses. If interested, you will take part in implementing those solutions
- Write reusable, high quality, data analysis software or models to enable accurate, efficient, and scalable analysis and data driven decisions
- Define and strategize interfaces between Autonomous Vehicle system modules; generating design strategies to maintain useful abstraction barriers between components. Over time, you will expand the scope of your systems engineering to broader aspects of the AV
- Articulate decisions and their rationales to drive cross system alignments and/or partner team implementations
What we're looking for:
- MS in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Physics, or a related field with 2 years of professional experience in owning the technical responsibility over a complex system, preferably a machine learning based perception subsystem. Alternatively, a BS in Engineering with 4 years of professional experience in owning the technical responsibility over a complex system preferably a perception sub-system
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication skills; effective in engaging cross teams for problem solving
- Highly proficient in Python
- Interested in and comfortable working with C, C++ software
- Familiar with core ML algorithm concepts and best practices
Bonus points:
- Ph.D. in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, Computer Science or a related field
- Experience with computer vision, or perception systems with different sensing modalities such as camera, lidar or radar
- Experience in developing, integrating, and/or validating machine learning based perception models
- Industry research or production experience
- Experience in high performance and real-time computing systems
- Experience with UML, simulation tools, SQL, Matlab
- Experience with professional software development
Why you should join us:
You will experience a fast paced working environment where you’ll be challenged to find new ways of thinking. Your colleagues are eager for fresh ideas to address the challenging problems still to be solved.
Our team is commercializing a world-class driverless system. The Motional team is behind some of the industry’s largest leaps forward in the last decade, 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 most-established public robotaxi fleet. Strategically formed by Hyundai Motor Group and Aptiv, Motional is fundamentally changing how people move through their lives. We value diversity, equity, and inclusion and provide a supportive work environment that prioritizes collaboration, communication, and creativity. Our team members are committed to delivering high-quality results that make a real difference in the world. If you are passionate about the future of autonomous vehicles and want to work with a team of talented and motivated professionals, we encourage you to apply to join our team. Additionally, we offer excellent benefits to include generous medical plans, wellness benefits, unlimited PTO, 401k and equity, to name a few.
Working conditions:
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to convey and detect communication
- The employee occasionally required to remain stationary at times for up to 50% of working time, move in designated working areas; & operate and use office equipment
- The employee may occasionally move up to 50 pounds
The Motional global headquarters are located at 100 Northern Avenue in Boston, MA. Nestled in the bustling Seaport district with sweeping views of Boston Harbor and downtown Boston, the offices are located close to major transit lines and a quick walk to various restaurants and popular attractions.
This position can support remote work in the US only.
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.
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
$131,000—$170,750 USD
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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.
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