Senior Engineer, ML Data Services
Motional · Boston, Massachusetts, United States; Las Vegas, Nevada, 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
- 87 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
As a Senior Engineer on the ML Data Services team, you will focus on building and improving data infrastructure for Autonomy ML teams. Your day-to-day responsibilities include designing and implementing RESTful APIs and microservices, architecting scalable data processing pipelines, and mentoring junior engineers. You will also collaborate with stakeholders to define objectives and ensure the delivery of high-quality data services for machine learning applications.
- benefits
- 3/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Motional as an employer.
What you need
- 5+ years of software development experience with Python preferred
- 5+ years of web backend development experience with REST APIs and microservices
- 3+ years of AWS cloud experience (e.g., DynamoDB, API Gateway, EKS, Lambda, OpenSearch, Redshift, S3)
- 3+ years of data engineering experience with AWS Step Functions, Airflow or Prefect
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Experience working in cross-functional development teams, including quarterly road map design
Nice to have
- Hands-on experience with using Ray, Beam, Spark, or related big data processing in a large-scale environment
- Expertise in deploying and optimizing vector databases for retrieval pipelines and multi-dimensional data embeddings
- Experience in Docker Containerization
- Autonomous driving industry experience
What you get
- medical, dental, vision
- 401k with a company match
- health saving accounts
- life insurance
- pet insurance
Worth weighing
- no salary listed beyond the range of $149,000 — $198,500
- role involves significant mentoring responsibilities
- focus on cloud technologies and data engineering may limit exposure to other tech stacks
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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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