Motional · 2 weeks ago
Staff Tech Lead Manager, ML Data Services
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
$172K/yr - $225K/yr
8+ years expMotional is a driverless technology company making autonomous vehicles a safe, reliable, and accessible reality. They are seeking a highly experienced Staff Tech Lead Manager to lead the development and operation of their core machine learning data infrastructure, ensuring high-quality data for ML use cases.
AutomotiveTransportationLogisticsInformation TechnologySoftwareAutonomous VehiclesFleet Management
No H1B
Responsibilities
Define and drive the technical roadmap and long-term strategy for the ML Data Service platform, ensuring it meets the evolving needs of ML engineers across the company
Serve as the top technical expert for the team, architecting complex, highly scalable, and fault-tolerant systems for data ingestion, transformation, and serving
Lead the technical vision for the provision of diverse training data sources, including ingestion from real-world drive logs, resimulation outputs, autolabelling pipelines, and human labelling efforts
Drive the implementation of robust mechanisms for monitoring data quality, tracking data lineage, and ensuring overall data governance and compliance
Provide hands-on technical guidance, design reviews, and mentorship to engineers, ensuring the adoption of best practices, high code quality, and operational excellence
Manage a team of software engineers, including performance reviews, career development, coaching, and mentoring
Act as a technical leader-manager hybrid, balancing 50% management duties with 50% technical leadership, architecture, and hands-on coding/design
Drive hiring and recruitment efforts to attract, onboard, and retain top engineering talent, fostering a diverse and inclusive team culture
Champion engineering excellence, operational rigor, and a strong sense of ownership within the team
Collaborate closely with ML model teams and Infrastructure teams to understand data needs and deliver solutions that accelerate ML development cycles
Lead the execution of major projects, ensuring on-time delivery and alignment with business objectives
Communicate complex technical concepts and strategic direction effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including executive leadership
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
8+ years of experience in software engineering, with a strong focus on large-scale data systems, distributed systems, or ML infrastructure
3+ years of experience managing engineering projects with a track record of delivering efficient tools and infra
Manager experience of building and scaling high-performing teams is a strong plus (including mentoring, performance management, and career development)
Deep expertise in data processing technologies (e.g., Spark, Flink, Beam, distributed databases) and experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure)
Demonstrated experience designing, implementing, and operating production-grade ML data pipelines or feature stores
Benefits
Candidates for certain positions are eligible to participate in Motional’s benefits program.
Motional’s benefits include but are not limited to medical, dental, vision, 401k with a company match, health saving accounts, life insurance, pet insurance, and more.
Company
Motional
Motional offers an autonomous driving platform for robotaxi providers, fleet operators, and automotive manufacturers. It is a sub-organization of Hyundai Motor Group.
501-1000 employees
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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