Staff Front End Engineer

Mission Summary:

Motional is seeking a Staff Front End Engineer expert for its Web Visualization Tooling team. This role will directly contribute through the creation of critical web tooling and visualization that allows us to improve our feedback loops for machine learning (ML) engineers and improve the performance and adaptability of our autonomous vehicle (AV) system.

What You'll Be Doing:

Drive cross-team standards and best practices for web development

Own cross team collaboration, ensuring deliveries are made on time and effectively

Architect and scale a modern frontend ecosystem using React, TypeScript, and Vue.

Collaborate closely with ML, frontend, UX, data services, data mining, and data annotation teams to align tooling with real-world workflows

Build mission-critical UI systems used by a variety of internal customers.

Drive best practices around performance, scalability and maintainability

Ship quickly and iterate in a product driven environment.

What We're Looking For:

Desire to design and build user-facing visual applications, and a passion for good UX.

Strong proficiency in React, Typescript and modern frontend architecture

Proficiency in Vue

Strong product sense with a focus on UX and usability.

Ability to work with high ownership and autonomy.

Ability to work autonomously and independently, and to drive development initiatives with little oversight. High aptitude for learning and organization skills.

Great interpersonal skills and ability to mentor and (on occasion) delegate to other engineers at various levels of relative seniority.

A well-established technical design and documentation habit

Capability to work directly with customers to identify foundational needs and provide solutions.

Bonus Points (not required):

Demonstrated project management expertise / advanced hands-on understanding of project management agility and operational excellence.

A love for the continuous delivery of value.

Exposure to backend systems (Node, Python)

Experience in Game Development or 3D Visualization

We encourage a hybrid schedule with in-office time at one of our locations in Boston, Pittsburgh, or Las Vegas to support collaboration, or this role can be fully remote.

Motional is a driverless technology company making autonomous vehicles a safe, reliable, and accessible reality. We're driven by something more.

Our journey is always people first.

We aren't just developing driverless cars; we're creating safer roadways, more equitable transportation options, and making our communities better places to live, work, and connect. Our team is made up of engineers, researchers, innovators, dreamers and doers, who are creating a technology with the potential to transform the way we move.

Higher purpose, greater impact.

We're creating first-of-its-kind technology that will transform transportation. To do so successfully, we must design for everyone in our cities and on our roads. We believe in building a great place to work through a progressive, global culture that is diverse, inclusive, and ensures people feel valued at every level of the organization. Diversity helps us to see the world differently; it's not only good for our business, it's the right thing to do.

Scale up, not starting up.

Our team is behind some of the industry's largest leaps forward, including the first fully-autonomous cross-country drive in the U.S, the launch of the world's first robotaxi pilot, and operation of the world's longest-standing public robotaxi fleet. We're driven to scale; we're moving towards commercialization of our technology, and we need team members who are ready to embrace change and challenges.

Formed as a joint venture between Hyundai Motor Group and Aptiv, Motional is fundamentally changing how people move through their lives. Headquartered in Boston, Motional has operations in the U.S and Asia. For more information, visit www.Motional.com and follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and YouTube.

Motional AD Inc. is an EOE. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. To comply with Federal Law, we participate in E-Verify. All newly-hired employees are queried through this electronic system established by the DHS and the SSA to verify their identity and employment eligibility.