Principal Technical Lead Manager - AI Data Applications

Team Leadership & Management

Build, lead, and manage a high-performing team of full stack web engineers.
Define team goals, priorities, and roadmap in alignment with company objectives.
Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and career development opportunities to team members.

Technical Strategy & Execution

Define the technical vision and strategy for building services and web platforms for storing and searching metadata and forming datasets.
Define AI adoption strategy for frontend codebase and UX projects to speed up development and time to market.
Identify and evaluate cutting-edge technologies and methodologies for querying through datasets stored in various types of databases (think images in vector store, metadata in Postgres, etc) and APIs owned by several teams across the company.

Cross-functional Collaboration

Collaborate closely with data mining, ML researchers, and other data platform teams to understand their needs and integrate solutions seamlessly.
Communicate complex technical concepts and strategies to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Experience & Skills

• Experience: BS or MS in Computer Science or related field
  8+ years of professional experience in building web applications
  3+ years of experience in a technical lead or management role
• Extensive experience with building web applications for search and data curation needs.
  Extensive experience with API and query federation technologies such as GraphQL or AWS Athena.
• Strong programming skills in Typescript and Python.
  Strong knowledge of modern frontend technologies such React.
  Strong knowledge of building REST and gRPC based services, ideally in Python.
• Prior experience with building web applications for engineering or machine learning needs.

Bonus Points

• Prior experience in autonomous vehicles (AV) is a plus.
• Prior experience with Bazel based build systems.
• Prior experience with developing frontend workflows using LLMs.

What We Offer

We encourage a hybrid schedule with in-office time at one of our locations in Boston, Pittsburgh, or Las Vegas to support collaboration, or this role can be fully remote.

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors including but not limited to specific skills, experience and expertise, role location, certifications, licenses, and business needs.

The estimated compensation range listed in this job posting reflects base salary only. This role may include additional forms of compensation such as a bonus or company equity.

Motional is a driverless technology company making autonomous vehicles a safe, reliable, and accessible reality. We're driven by something more. Our journey is always people first.

We aren't just developing driverless cars; we're creating safer roadways, more equitable transportation options, and making our communities better places to live, work, and connect.

Our team is made up of engineers, researchers, innovators, dreamers and doers, who are creating a technology with the potential to transform the way we move.

Higher purpose, greater impact.

We’re creating first-of-its-kind technology that will transform transportation. To do so successfully, we must design for everyone in our cities and on our roads.

We believe in building a great place to work through a progressive, global culture that is diverse, inclusive, and ensures people feel valued at every level of the organization.

Diversity helps us to see the world differently; it’s not only good for our business, it’s the right thing to do.

Scale up, not starting up.

We’re driven to scale; we’re moving towards commercialization of our technology, and we need team members who are ready to embrace change and challenges.

Formed as a joint venture between Hyundai Motor Group and Aptiv, Motional is fundamentally changing how people move through their lives.

For more information, visit www.Motional.com and follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and YouTube.

Motional AD Inc. is an EOE. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.