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Principal Engineer, Data & ML Infrastructure

Motional

Boston, MA · Remote · Lead / Staff / Principal

$200,000 – $275,000

Listed on Motional’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.

What this role is

This role leads the design and operation of large-scale cloud infrastructure that validates autonomous driving models through simulation and data analysis at Motional. It suits engineers with deep experience building distributed systems, orchestration platforms, and data pipelines who are ready to mentor teams and shape architectural direction in a mission-driven setting.

Our summary, not Motional’s wording. The full posting is on their site.

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What they ask for

Required

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or related field
  • Proficiency in Go and Python
  • Production cloud infrastructure experience on AWS, GCP, or Azure
  • Kubernetes container orchestration at scale
  • Large-scale data processing and distributed computing experience
  • Technical leadership and mentoring

Nice to have

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science or related field
  • OLAP database knowledge or experience (ClickHouse)
  • Machine learning experience in autonomous driving
  • Architecture of large-scale orchestration platforms managing thousands of GPU/CPU workloads
  • Machine learning, data mining, and statistical analysis experience

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