Staff Front End Engineering Lead

Mission Summary: Motional is seeking a Staff Front End Engineer expert for its Web Visualization Tooling team. This role will directly contribute through the creation of critical web tooling and visualization that allows us to improve our feedback loops for machine learning (ML) engineers and improve the performance and adaptability of our autonomous vehicle (AV) system.

What You'll Be Doing:

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 initiative experiences for complex, data-heavy workflows.

Drive best practices around performance, scalability and maintainability

Ship quickly and iterate in a product driven environment.

What We're Looking For:

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.

Ability to work autonomously and independently, and to drive development initiatives with little oversight. High aptitude for learning and organization skills.

Great interpersonal skills and ability to mentor and (on occasion) delegate to other engineers at various levels of relative seniority.

A well-established technical design and documentation habit

Capability to work directly with customers to identify foundational needs and provide solutions.

Bonus Points (not required):

Demonstrated project management expertise / advanced hands-on understanding of project management agility and operational excellence.

A love for the continuous delivery of value.

Exposure to backend systems (Node, Python)