Senior Release Engineer

Motional•Boston, MA

23h•Hybrid

About The Position

As a Release Engineer at Motional, you will join the newly formed Release team, responsible for creating our customer-facing external software releases. You will be responsible for executing the technical vision for our software release and validation infrastructure. In this role, you will work hands-on to build, maintain, and automate the pipelines that ensure the safety and reliability of software deployed across our autonomous vehicle fleet. You will be instrumental in translating strategic release goals into efficient, scalable engineering workflows.

Requirements

BS or MS in Engineering or equivalent knowledge and work experience.
Strong proficiency in Git, Python; advanced experience with CI/CD infrastructure (e.g., GitLab CI, Jenkins).
Experience in the autonomous driving sector, robotics, or complex software release environments.
Demonstrated ability to work within a highly technical team, translate complex requirements into actionable code, and communicate effectively with cross-functional stakeholders.
A focus on building maintainable, "production-ready" systems and a desire to improve engineering workflows rather than just patching issues.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Cloud Simulation scaling and AWS application environments.
Experience with Apache Airflow or similar workflow orchestration tools.
Experience with simulation-based validation frameworks (e.g., Applied Intuition).

Responsibilities

Collaborate with the Release team to implement and enforce "shift-left" quality gates, ensuring that only stable, well-validated code reaches release branches.
Partner with Autonomy, System Readiness & Performance, and Project Manager teams to streamline the integration of patches and bug fixes, acting as the primary point of contact for release-related build inquiries.
Assist in executing the organization’s release strategy (e.g., maintaining clean branching models) to ensure release isolation and stability.
Contribute to the visibility of release metrics, identifying bottlenecks in the build process and proposing data-backed solutions to improve release team and developer velocity.
Write and maintain automation scripts to enforce release quality, minimize manual overhead, and manage build compatibility across diverse autonomy stacks.