Senior Engineer, Autonomy Foundations
Motional
About this role
We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and develop onboard and offboard pipelines for localization, mapping, and related software for autonomous driving systems. This high-impact role is essential for ensuring the safety and functionality of our autonomous driving technologies, requiring robust real-time software development in C++. You will also contribute to the design and productionalization of our Collision Detection System, working within a collaborative team environment.
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About Motional
motional.comNew Relic is a cloud-based observability and telemetry platform that helps engineering teams monitor, debug, and optimize software and infrastructure performance. It offers application performance monitoring (APM), distributed tracing, logs, metrics, synthetic and real-user monitoring, dashboards, and alerting — all accessible through a unified data model and query language. Built for both cloud-native and legacy environments, New Relic integrates with many third-party services and DevOps tools to provide end-to-end visibility, rapid root-cause analysis, and business-focused performance insights.
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About Motional
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Company Size
201-500 employees
Founded
2018
Industry
Technology
Glassdoor Rating
4.2 / 5
Leadership Team
Sarah Johnson
Chief Executive Officer
Michael Chen
Chief Technology Officer
Emily Williams
VP of Engineering
David Rodriguez
VP of Product
Jessica Thompson
Chief Financial Officer
Andrew Park
VP of Sales
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Salary
$172k – $229k
per year