Senior Engineer - Semantic Search
Mission Summary
Motional's autonomous vehicles collect petabytes of data on the road every day. The Semantic Search Team manages data infrastructure, processing, and visualization for Motional's machine learning data. Our team also provides a scenario mining framework that other teams in Autonomy use to mine for complex and rare scenarios to improve our ML training model and av-stack performance.
As our data continues to grow, our team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to design scalable data processing infrastructure and improve the efficiency of the data architecture and scenario mining framework for the entire Autonomy organization.
The Motional Pittsburgh office is located in the new Hazelwood Green development, a culmination of the city’s goal of restoring an economic driver to the neighborhood in a thoughtful, inclusive, and sustainable way. With views along the Monongahela river, the Pittsburgh office is in the heart of this new state of the art development.
What You'll Be Doing
- Build a text-to-image search engine for improved data discovery and data annotation
- Design and implement new data pipelines for other Autonomy teams
- Migrate the existing scenario mining framework to Apache Spark
- Scale the existing Semantic Search data infrastructure and data pipelines
What We're Looking For
- Strong experience in large-scale data processing with Apache Spark
- Strong coding experience with Python or Scala
- Solid experience in developing data pipelines with Apache Airflow
- Solid experience in AWS/Cloud (e.g., API Gateway, EKS, Lambda, OpenSearch, Redshift, S3)
- Experience interacting with REST APIs and microservices
- Ability to mentor junior engineers
- Ability to communicate clearly to non-domain experts about potentially complex behaviors
Bonus Points (not required)
- Web backend experience with C# .Net
- Autonomous Vehicle experience
Why you should join us:
- Opportunity to build impactful products across the organization
- Help shape technical roadmaps
- Be part of a rapidly growing team that interfaces with many branches of the organization
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
$159,000—$207,000 USD
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