Motional · 15 hours ago
Senior Software Engineer, Data & Machine Learning Infrastructure
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$155K/yr - $207K/yr
5+ years expMotional is a driverless technology company making autonomous vehicles a safe, reliable, and accessible reality. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead mining strategies and workflows that enhance the quality of data for machine learning products.
AutomotiveAutonomous VehiclesFleet ManagementInformation TechnologySoftware
Responsibilities
Own large-scale mining workflows that surface rare objects, model errors & long-tail events
Build high-quality datasets to improve ML products through training & edge case validation
Contribute to data processing pipelines that fuel our in-house billion-scale image search engine
Provide statistical depth on model performance & generalization through rigorous error analysis across complex driving scenarios
Qualification
Required
BS in computer science or similar discipline
5+ years of experience architecting and shipping high-performance & large-scale distributed systems
Experience with core AWS services (S3, RDS, EMR, EKS, OpenSearch etc.)
Experience with writing complex yet efficient SQL queries for data analysis purposes
Experience with common DBMS (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB etc.)
Experience with data warehousing and parquet data manipulation (e.g. Athena, Redshift, BigQuery)
Experience with Spark, Beam, Kafka, Hadoop or other data processing tools
Fluency in Python and experience on production-quality software development
Solid software engineering principles (software design patterns, configuration management, source control, build processes, code reviews, testing methodologies, app containerization, continuous integration etc.)
Preferred
MS/PhD in computer science, machine learning, statistics or computer vision
Experience with at least one of the following ML techniques/models: Few-shot Learning, Metric Learning, Information Retrieval, Recommender Systems, Contrastive Learning, Semi-supervised Learning, Object Detection / Segmentation / Prediction
Experience with data visualization tools (Redash, Looker, PowerBI, Tableau etc.)
Experience with PyTorch or other deep learning frameworks
Experience with A/B testing methodologies and metrics tracking systems
Experience with machine learning in the autonomous driving domain
Familiarity with autonomous driving sensors (cameras, lidar, radar, localization sensors etc.)
Benefits
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Health saving accounts
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And more
Company
Motional
Motional offers an autonomous driving platform for robotaxi providers, fleet operators, and automotive manufacturers.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
unknown2024-05-03Acquired
2024-03-15Seed
Leadership Team
Laura Major
President and CEO
Balajee Kannan
Vice President, Autonomy
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