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$149,000 – $198,500
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What this role is
This role involves designing and maintaining scalable data infrastructure, APIs, and processing pipelines that support machine learning teams working on autonomous vehicle technology. You'll own critical backend services, mentor junior engineers, and work across teams to define technical strategy for handling massive datasets.
Our summary, not Motional’s wording. The full posting is on their site.
Skills this role names
- Amazon EKS
- Amazon Redshift
- Amazon S3
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Apache Airflow
- Apache Beam
- API Gateway
- AWS Lambda
- AWS Step Functions
- Docker
- DynamoDB
- Microservices
- Python
- REST APIs
- SPARK
- V-Ray
- Vector Databases
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What they ask for
Required
- 5+ years of software development experience
- 5+ years of web backend development with REST APIs and microservices
- 3+ years of AWS cloud experience
- 3+ years of data engineering experience with workflow orchestration tools
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Experience in cross-functional development teams
- Ability to mentor junior engineers
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field
Nice to have
- Experience with Ray, Beam, Spark, or similar big data processing at scale
- Vector database deployment and optimization expertise
- Docker containerization experience
- Autonomous driving industry background
- Hands-on use of modern AI coding tools like Cursor, Claude Code, or GitHub Copilot