Staff Engineer, Team Lead - Core Infrastructure

Motional•Boston, MA

5d•$172,000 - $229,000

About The Position

Motional is seeking a Staff Engineer, Team Lead for Core Infrastructure Test and Support Engineering. This role will build and lead the team responsible for testing Motional’s software platform and supporting it in operation. The team owns platform-level testing and support for Core Infrastructure, finding problems before they reach the fleet and responding to issues affecting the fleet, test benches, simulation, and release processes. The role sets the technical direction and plan for stress, fault-injection, regression, and integration testing of core platform software. It also establishes an on-call rotation, incident triage, and vehicle and release enablement to support the team’s customer-facing products and services. The team lead owns priorities, performance, and career growth, while remaining involved in testing and incident response and developing leads who can independently manage parts of the work. The position works closely with engineering and operations teams, including teams responsible for vehicle software and test infrastructure. The role serves as the point of contact for platform test results and Core Infrastructure support.

Requirements

BS or MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent knowledge and work experience.
10+ 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.
Experience owning 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, and 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 engineers who own 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 people with different working styles, ideas, and backgrounds.

Nice To Haves

Experience with automotive functional safety (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 hardware-in-the-loop, software-in-the-loop, 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 HIL, SIL, and vehicle setups.
Own on-call support for onboard core software on vehicles and team-supported services, including software deployment and vehicle data ingestion.
Establish on-call rotation, incident triage, and vehicle and release enablement processes.
Hire and develop the team; own its priorities, performance, and employees’ career growth.
Remain involved in testing and the incident queue to maintain quality standards, and develop leads to manage areas of work independently.
Serve as the contact for platform test results and Core Infrastructure support.
Work closely with teams across engineering and operations, including teams responsible for vehicle software and test infrastructure.
Set the technical direction and testing plan for the Core Infrastructure platform.