Motional

Principal Engineer Team Lead, Simulation Infrastructure

Work from home

Remote role where the employee must remain based in a particular country.

United States only

From the listing details: Source listing states candidate location: "Boston, Massachusetts, United States; Las Vegas, Nevada, United States; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States; Remote U.S., Boston, Las Vegas, Pittsburgh, Remote U.S. Only"

Employer listed it 7 days ago · Added 4 days ago

First listed 7 days ago and still open.

Salary

$200,000 to $275,000

Location

United States only

Timezone

US East

Contract

Full-time

Experience

Lead

What the advert says

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Working hours: Not mentioned in the advert
Where you can work from: Hybrid Role: Flexible working locations requiring occasional on-site collaboration at our Las Vegas, NV, Pittsburgh, PA offices.
Contract: Not mentioned in the advert
Experience asked for: Technical Leadership: 4+ years of experience leading engineering teams, defining technical roadmaps, and mentoring junior/senior engineers.
Pay: 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.

Remote flexibility

Work from home

This is a remote role, but the employee must be based in United States. It is work from home rather than work from anywhere.

What the employer says

Source listing states candidate location: "Boston, Massachusetts, United States; Las Vegas, Nevada, United States; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States; Remote U.S., Boston, Las Vegas, Pittsburgh, Remote U.S. Only"

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About the role

Mission Summary:

Motional is at the forefront of the driverless revolution. An autonomous driving company backed by Hyundai Motor Group, we are making autonomous vehicles a safe, reliable, and accessible reality.

We are seeking a Principal Engineer Team Lead to join and lead our Simulation Infrastructure team within the Testing Services organization. In this role, you will be the technical and team leader responsible for designing, building, scaling, and optimizing the cloud and software infrastructure that powers our Software-in-the-Loop (SIL) simulation framework and offboard validation pipeline.

You will lead a high-performing team of engineers responsible for processing millions of simulation runs per month, optimizing cloud compute resources, building robust scenario library infrastructure, and integrating simulation capabilities directly into Motional’s software release gating lifecycle. Your work will directly accelerate autonomy development, improve build health, and ensure safe software releases across our robotaxi fleet.

What You'll Be Doing:

Team Leadership & Strategy

Lead, mentor, and grow a team of simulation infrastructure engineers across multiple locations.

Define and execute the multi-year technical roadmap for Simulation Infrastructure, aligning team goals with broader Autonomy and Testing Services objectives.

Partner cross-functionally with Release, SIL Runtime, Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL), and Autonomy development teams to expand test coverage and streamline offboard validation.

Cloud Scale, Execution & Cost Optimization

Architect and maintain high-throughput, multi-cluster (with blue/green CI deployments), cloud load balancing, resim/orchestration pipelines, and job prioritization for cloud simulation.

Oversee EC2 sizing and spot queue enablement with automated failover to optimize AWS Cloud expenditures while maximizing compute throughput and queue observability.

Develop extensible, plug-and-play simulation engine abstractions and interfaces to support modular simulation architectures.

Ensure ecosystem compatibility and seamless integration across internal tools and frameworks.

Sim Definitions, Pipeline Automation & Tooling

Build and maintain System Under Test (SUT) definitions along with tooling to support SUT workflows across different simulation modalities.

Develop infrastructure supporting both local and remote/cloud execution and scaling, including map and scenario infrastructure plumbing.

Support and maintain data generation pipelines, synthetic data workflows, and automated log-to-synthetic pipelines.

Establish comprehensive cost, throughput, and queue observability, building real-time metrics dashboards for simulation execution, cluster health, and cloud resource efficiency.

Lead postmortems, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives for simulation test stability and infrastructure reliability.

What We're Looking For:

Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Robotics, Mechatronics, or a closely related engineering field.

Experience: 7+ years of professional software engineering experience (or 5+ years with a Master’s degree) in autonomous vehicles, robotics, or complex cloud infrastructure.

Technical Leadership: 4+ years of experience leading engineering teams, defining technical roadmaps, and mentoring junior/senior engineers.

Requirements

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Benefits

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