Staff Engineer, Team Lead - Core Infrastructure

Motional • Boston, MA

4d • $172,000 - $229,000

About The Position

Motional is hiring a Staff Engineer, Team Lead for Core Infrastructure Test and Support Engineering to build and lead a team responsible for testing Motional’s software platform and supporting it in operation. The role owns platform-level testing and support for the Core Infrastructure team, establishes technical direction, and works with vehicle software and test infrastructure teams to define responsibilities and interfaces.

The team will identify platform problems before they reach the fleet and respond to issues affecting fleet vehicles, test benches, simulation, and software releases. The role sets plans for stress, fault-injection, regression, and integration testing; establishes on-call, triage, and vehicle and release enablement; and supports the team’s customer-facing products and services. The team lead hires and develops engineers, sets priorities, manages performance and career growth, and builds leads who can own areas of work.

Motional is a driverless technology company formed as a joint venture between Hyundai Motor Group and Aptiv. It is headquartered in Boston and operates in the U.S. and Asia. The company describes its culture as people-first, diverse, inclusive, and focused on making autonomous vehicles safe, reliable, and accessible.

Requirements

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent knowledge and work experience.
• 10 or more years of software engineering experience, including time leading a team of engineers.
• Experience in a field where software runs on physical hardware or on infrastructure used to build and operate it, such as automotive, robotics, aerospace, or large device fleets.
• Owned platform- or system-level testing (such as stress testing, fault injection, integration suites, or release campaigns) or production support (such as on-call, incident triage, or postmortems) for software other teams depend on.
• Sufficient depth in embedded software, Linux, middleware, or test and release infrastructure to distinguish product defects from bench or test problems and work with the engineers responsible for those layers.
• Experience with software in production on a fleet or in the field, including on-call, bring-up, and releasing software and/or hardware products.
• Experience hiring, developing, and retaining engineers, including building a team or an on-call rotation.
• Experience building inclusive teams and making room for different working styles, ideas, and backgrounds.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with automotive functional safety, such as ISO 26262 or similar, including using test results as verification evidence against requirements.
• Experience building an on-call and incident program for a fleet or shared platform, including runbooks and response plans.
• Hands-on experience with HIL, SIL, or simulation infrastructure, including running test campaigns on it or writing requirements for it.
• Experience in the autonomous vehicle or robotaxi industry.

Responsibilities

• Own software platform-level test suites and combine and improve integration tests written by other teams so they run as a unified suite.
• Run release qualification, regression, and bring-up campaigns on hardware-in-the-loop (HIL), software-in-the-loop (SIL), and vehicle setups.
• Own on-call support for onboard core software on vehicles and for the team’s services, including software deployment and vehicle data ingestion.
• Hire and develop the team; own team priorities, performance, and career growth.
• Stay close to tests and incident queues, maintain quality standards, and develop leads who can independently run areas of work.
• Serve as the contact for platform test results and Core Infrastructure support, working closely with engineering and operations teams.
• Establish on-call rotation, triage, and vehicle and release enablement to support the team’s customer-facing products and services.

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401(k) with company match
• Health savings accounts
• Life insurance
• Pet insurance
• Additional benefits may be available to candidates eligible for Motional’s benefits program.
• The role may include a bonus or company equity.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior