Principal Engineer, Data & ML Infrastructure
Motional · Boston, Massachusetts, United States; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States; Remote U.S.
Posted about 3 months ago
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 84 days Motional's roles stay open a median of 87 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of Motional's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Motional
- high 74 stale, 1 reposted of 74 open
- Hiring momentum
- 107 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-29
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Motional's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Motional.
About this role
The Principal Engineer for Data & ML Infrastructure will lead the development and maintenance of large-scale orchestration frameworks for simulation and evaluation of autonomous vehicles. This role involves driving innovation in data warehousing, managing data analysis workflows, providing technical leadership, and ensuring project execution. The engineer will work with cloud infrastructure and distributed systems to support machine learning models and software development.
- benefits
- 3/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 5/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
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What you need
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field
- Excellent communication and problem-solving skills
- Proficiency in Go (Golang) and Python
- Deep hands-on experience building production infrastructure on public clouds (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- Experience managing containerized workloads at scale using Kubernetes (K8s)
- Experience with large-scale data processing and distributed computing technologies
Nice to have
- Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related field
- Knowledge of or hands-on experience with OLAP databases (e.g., ClickHouse)
- Experience with machine learning in the autonomous driving domain
- Hands-on experience architecting large-scale orchestration platforms that run multi-thousand GPU/CPU workloads
- Experience in machine learning, data mining, and statistical analysis
What you get
- medical, dental, vision
- 401k with a company match
- health saving accounts
- life insurance
- pet insurance
Worth weighing
- Salary range provided, but only base salary is mentioned; additional compensation details to be discussed during hiring process
- Role involves working on cutting-edge technology in a rapidly evolving field
- Candidates should be prepared for a dynamic work environment focused on scaling and commercialization
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Listed by Motional on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-29. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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