Motional · 1 month ago
Engineer/Senior Machine Learning Integration Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$142K/yr - $225K/yrMotional is a driverless technology company making autonomous vehicles a safe, reliable, and accessible reality. They are seeking a passionate engineer to help bring machine learning-based motion planning to the car, focusing on deploying, optimizing, and maintaining ML-driven planning and control algorithms for real-time autonomous driving.
AutomotiveAutonomous VehiclesFleet ManagementInformation TechnologySoftware
Responsibilities
Deploy ML-based motion planning and control models onto vehicle platforms, ensuring performance under resource constraints
Optimize models for inference speed, latency, and memory footprint without sacrificing accuracy or safety
Collaborate with motion planning, controls, and perception teams to integrate ML components into the end-to-end autonomous driving stack
Build scalable deployment infrastructure including evaluation pipelines, model packaging, benchmarking, and automated validation
Validate model performance in both simulation and on-road testing, analyzing results and driving iterative improvements
Maintain production-quality code in C++ and Python
Qualification
Required
BS/MS/PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field
Experience deploying ML systems in real-world robotics, embedded, or autonomous platforms
Experience with reinforcement learning
Strong software engineering skills in C++ and Python, with knowledge of modern development practices (code reviews, testing, CI/CD)
Hands-on experience with ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow) and model optimization for deployment
Familiarity with GPU acceleration, or inference optimization (e.g., TensorRT, CUDA)
Strong problem-solving skills and ability to debug complex systems under production constraints
Preferred
Experience with autonomous vehicle motion planning, control algorithms (MPC, LQR, PID), or reinforcement learning–based methods
Publications in relevant ML or robotics conferences (ICRA, NeurIPS, CoRL, RSS, etc.)
Experience with ROS, AUTOSAR, or other real-time robotics frameworks
Knowledge of numerical optimization and its applications in trajectory generation
Benefits
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Company
Motional
Motional offers an autonomous driving platform for robotaxi providers, fleet operators, and automotive manufacturers.
Founded in 2020
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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