Principal Technical Lead Manager

Mission Summary:

Motional is seeking a Principal Technical Lead Manager for its Web Visualization Tooling team.  This role will directly lead our visualization experiences, both from tooling and end user perspectives. Motional’s suite of web tools and visualization applications allows us to improve our feedback loops for machine learning (ML) engineers, improve the performance and adaptability of our autonomous vehicle (AV) system, and ensure that our internal and external users have best-in-class capabilities available to them.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Lead and grow the visualization engineering team

Ensure that our Data Products roadmap includes the necessary investments at the right times

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.

Design initiative experiences for complex, data-heavy workflows.

Drive best practices around performance, scalability and maintainability

Ship quickly and iterate in a product driven environment.

Required Qualifications:

Experience leading a team of engineers working in both office and remote environments

Proven success in scoping, creating breakdowns, and tracking progress for software development projects

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 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.

Established success in technical design and documentation habits

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

Preferred(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.

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors including but not limited to specific skills, experience and expertise, role location, certifications, licenses, and business needs. The estimated compensation range listed in this job posting reflects base salary only. This role may include additional forms of compensation such as a bonus or company equity. The recruiter assigned to this role can share more information about the specific compensation and benefit details associated with this role during the hiring process.

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.

Salary Range

$176,000—$242,000 USD