We are actively seeking a highly motivated and exceptional senior engineering manager to lead the Map Engineering team. The team is responsible for the design and development of cutting-edge systems and software for Motional’s current and future Mapping efforts. This role is critical in leading the scaling and operationalization of our production mapping pipeline. As a manager of the Mapping organization, you will be responsible for supporting multiple sub-teams.
This is an exciting opportunity to have a direct impact on the company’s business goals by helping the teams solve complex technical problems, which allows us to reliably scale production maps to meet the high-reliability needs of commercial operations.
What You'll Be Doing
- Provide people leadership and build a strong engineering and leadership bench within the Mapping organization.
- Partner with leadership to influence the long-term vision and technical strategy for scaling production mapping solutions, emphasizing cloud-native infrastructure and real-time update capabilities.
- Serve as an interface and collaboration partner with key adjacent domains (Localization, Perception, and Planning) and customers (Mapping Operations, Commercial).
- Uplevel the teams by creating robust processes and quality frameworks that increase productivity, efficiency, and output for safety-critical systems.
- Own the operationalization of the commercial mapping pipeline, focusing on throughput, reliability, and low-latency map delivery to the AV stack.
- Prioritize safety above all else in designing and implementing software solutions, ensuring the highest standards of safety in our autonomous driving efforts.
- Regularly evaluate current technology and technical standards; promote and implement new technologies, best practices, and process improvements across the data and compute stack.
- Oversee the design and architecture of scalable mapping infrastructure and tools, supporting petabyte-scale data processing.
- Oversee the development and deployment of efficient and reliable large-scale distributed systems.
What We're Looking For
- BS or MS in Computer Science or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience managing engineers and 2+ years of managing managers in a fast-paced production environment.
- Proven ability to partner with leadership and set a multi-year vision and technical strategy for complex engineering domains.
- Proven ability to partner and collaborate with upstream and downstream teams to balance urgent short-term deliverables with smart long-term investments.
- Experience partnering with technical leadership on the team to build and execute the technical roadmap.
- Experience building resilient teams, leadership bench and upleveling them with coaching and resources.
- Experience building and shipping production software with demonstrated technical judgment to