Senior Onboard Software Engineer (Onsite or US Remote)

Mission Summary:

Motional’s self-driving vehicles depend on advanced robotics algorithms to drive safely and robustly, and just as importantly, they require well-designed and tested onboard infrastructure software to help support those functions. This includes the infrastructure to log our data, to orchestrate our sequence of robotics tasks, robustly read from our sensors, and more.

In this role, as a senior onboard software engineer, Motional will look to you to evaluate the readiness of our onboard infrastructure software for our driverless launches. You will be a key stakeholder in the design, development, and testing of our onboard software to ensure a high quality engineering bar matching our safety needs. This includes designing safety into our system by ensuring common fault paths are properly accounted for, helping ensure strong coding practices are in place, and ensuring proper test coverage of all critical onboard infrastructure software. This role isn’t an advisory role--you will be expected to take part in most of these activities, spearheading them where they haven’t been done and otherwise supporting them where necessary.

What you'll be doing:

• Brainstorm failure modes of our onboard infrastructure, estimate the safety impact of the failure modes, and deduce the priority of a given concern
• Help modify our onboard software to become more robust to a given potential failure mode
• Design, execute, and analyze specialized tests (as unit tests, simulation tests, vehicle track tests, etc.) to demonstrate our onboard software’s robustness
• Help create high-quality documentation of our onboard infrastructure’s architecture
• Improve our custom internal testing tools to make them easier to use or make them capable of testing more complex behavior

What we're looking for: 

• A bachelor’s degree in a related field, ideally Computer Science
• Five or more years development experience, preferably in C++
• A passion for good engineering practices, with a strong sense of many different testing modalities and where they are needed (unit testing, integration testing, bench testing of embedded platforms, etc.)
• Experience deriving how low-level technical details imply properties of the overall software behavior
• A build-it attitude, willing to step in where necessary to build the infrastructure necessary to meet our product’s demands
• Strong communication and collaboration skills--the role requires a strong relationship with several onboard software teams and the safety team

Bonus Points (not required):

• A master’s degree in a related field (e.g., Computer Science, Math, Physics, Electrical Engineering, etc.)
• A working knowledge of common systems engineering deliverables, including Failure Mode and Effects Analyses, Functional Hazard Analysis, etc.
• Experience with multi-threaded software development
• Experience developing for embedded hardware

Why you should join us: 

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

This position can support remote work within the United States, and may require occasional travel.  

 

 

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, certificat