Principal Technical Lead Manager - AI Data Applications

Motional•Boston, MA

78d•$240,000 - $330,000•Hybrid

About The Position

We are seeking an experienced and visionary Principal Technical Lead Manager to build and lead our new AI Data Application team. This pivotal role will drive the strategy, development, and execution of initiatives aimed at significantly accelerating our ML dataset generation and data search applications. The ultimate goal is to drastically reduce the development cycle for new pipelines, ML models and get us operationally prepared for a driverless future! You will be a hands-on leader, blending deep technical expertise in data systems and infrastructure with strong leadership and people management skills. You will recruit, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvements.

Requirements

BS or MS in Computer Science or related field
8+ years of professional experience in building web applications
3+ years of experience in a technical lead or management role
Extensive experience with building web applications for search and data curation needs.
Extensive experience with API and query federation technologies such as GraphQL or AWS Athena.
Strong programming skills in Typescript and Python.
Strong knowledge of modern frontend technologies such React.
Strong knowledge of building REST and gRPC based services, ideally in Python.
Prior experience with building web applications for engineering or machine learning needs

Nice To Haves

Prior experience in autonomous vehicles (AV) is a plus.
Prior experience with Bazel based build systems.
Prior experience with developing frontend workflows using LLMs.

Responsibilities

Build, lead, and manage a high-performing team of full stack web engineers.
Define team goals, priorities, and roadmap in alignment with company objectives.
Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and career development opportunities to team members.
Define the technical vision and strategy for building services and web platforms for storing and searching metadata and forming datasets.
Define AI adoption strategy for frontend codebase and UX projects to speed up development and time to market.
Identify and evaluate cutting-edge technologies and methodologies for querying through datasets stored in various types of databases (think images in vector store, metadata in Postgres, etc) and APIs owned by several teams across the company.
Collaborate closely with data mining, ML researchers, and other data platform teams to understand their needs and integrate solutions seamlessly.
Communicate complex technical concepts and strategies to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.