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Motional · 9 hours ago

2026 Summer Intern – MS/PhD – Infrastructure

positionBoston, MA
timeInternship
remoteHybrid
seniorityIntern
workcardStart in 2026 Summer

Motional is a driverless technology company focused on making autonomous vehicles a safe and reliable reality. The Infrastructure Intern will assist in building and optimizing data pipelines and platforms that support model development and deployment for various teams, with a focus on high-reliability data systems and automation.

AutomotiveAutonomous VehiclesFleet ManagementInformation TechnologySoftware
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H1B Sponsor Likelynote

Responsibilities

Support development of scalable data ingestion, processing, and validation pipelines
Build tools for dataset management, versioning, and quality measurement
Work with large multimodal datasets (images, video, telemetry, logs)
Implement automation to improve data labeling workflows, annotation QA, and metadata tracking
Collaborate with Perception, Behaviors, and Actions teams to understand data requirements and optimize tiered dataflows
Contribute to the observability of data pipelines, including metrics, dashboards, and alerting
Support development of Cloud Operations Platform to manage autonomous vehicle fleet
Support development of Development Portal to improve SDLC workflows and systems
Document systems, processes, and best practices

Qualification

PythonC++GolangData engineeringDistributed systemsSQLNoSQLAutomationBig-data technologiesWorkflow orchestrationML data pipelinesSource management toolsCloud environments

Required

Currently pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Machine Learning, Robotics, or a related field
Strong programming skills in Python, C++, Golang or other modern programming languages
Coursework or project experience in data engineering, distributed systems, automation, or backend infrastructure
Coursework or project experience serverless architectures, building systems using SQL and NoSQL databases
Familiarity with SQL and data structures

Preferred

Experience with big-data technologies
Knowledge of workflow orchestration tools
Exposure to ML data pipelines, dataset lifecycle management, or ETL systems
Experience with source management tools (ex. git, svn, ClearCase)
Familiarity with tools for logging, monitoring, or observability
Experience with cloud or containerized environments or willingness to learn

Company

Motional

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Motional offers an autonomous driving platform for robotaxi providers, fleet operators, and automotive manufacturers.
dateFounded in 2020
location
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
people-size1001-5000 employees
web-link
https://motional.com

H1B Sponsorship

Motional has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
Represents job field similar to this job
Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (56)
2024 (111)
2023 (57)
2022 (110)
2021 (100)
2020 (7)

Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage
Total Funding
unknown
2024-05-03Acquired
2024-03-15Seed

Leadership Team

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Laura Major
President and CEO
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Balajee Kannan
Vice President, Autonomy
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Recent News

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