Staff Front End Engineer

Motional is a driverless technology company making autonomous vehicles a safe, reliable, and accessible reality. We’re developing technology that will transform transportation, creating safer roadways, more equitable transportation options, and making communities better places to live, work, and connect.

About the role

We are seeking a Staff Front End Engineer expert for our Web Visualization Tooling team. This role will directly contribute through the creation of critical web tooling and visualization that improves feedback loops for machine learning (ML) engineers and enhances the performance and adaptability of our autonomous vehicle (AV) system.

Responsibilities

• Drive cross-team standards and best practices for web development
• Own cross-team collaboration, ensuring deliveries are made on time and effectively
• Architect and scale a modern frontend ecosystem using React, TypeScript, and Vue
• Collaborate closely with ML, frontend, UX, data services, data mining, and data annotation teams to align tooling with real-world workflows
• Build mission-critical UI systems used by a variety of internal customers
• Design intuitive experiences for complex, data-heavy workflows
• Drive best practices around performance, scalability, and maintainability
• Ship quickly and iterate in a product-driven environment

Requirements

• Desire to design and build user-facing visual applications, and a passion for good UX
• Strong proficiency in React, TypeScript, and modern frontend architecture
• Proficiency in Vue
• Strong product sense with a focus on UX and usability
• Ability to work with high ownership and autonomy
• High aptitude for learning and strong organizational skills
• Great interpersonal skills and ability to mentor and occasionally delegate to engineers at various levels
• A well-established technical design and documentation habit
• Capability to work directly with customers to identify foundational needs and provide solutions

Skills

• Demonstrated project management expertise or advanced hands-on understanding of project management agility and operational excellence (bonus)
• Love for the continuous delivery of value (bonus)
• Exposure to backend systems (Node, Python) (bonus)
• Experience in Game Development or 3D Visualization (bonus)

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 401k with a company match
• Health savings accounts
• Life insurance
• Pet insurance
• Additional forms of compensation such as a bonus or company equity

Pay

Salary Range: $172,000 USD - $229,000 USD

Schedule

Hybrid schedule with in-office time at one of our locations in Boston, Pittsburgh, or Las Vegas to support collaboration, or fully remote.