Senior Engineer, Developer Productivity

We are seeking a capable and highly motivated Senior Engineer for our Developer Productivity (DevProd) team to enable teams to work more effectively by partnering with them to improve tooling and processes. You will join a talented team of DevProd engineers and collaborate closely with teams across the organization to identify pain points and drive initiatives that empower teams to deliver on Motional's mission.

**What You'll Be Doing**
- Design, develop and maintain tools and systems that streamline the development lifecycle, including CI/CD pipelines, build systems, toolchains and code quality tools.
- Work closely with engineering teams around the world (Singapore, US) to understand their needs, identify pain-points and drive initiatives to improve their development workflows.
- Partner with DevOps/SRE team to develop and maintain automation, services and bots to reduce developer toil.
- Capture metrics to track Motional's developer experience.
- Work with domain experts across the organization to establish and promote best practices for software development.
- Mentor and guide junior team members on developing technical problem-solving skills and adopting industry best practices
- Stay abreast of the latest industry developments, and evaluate new tools and techniques to enhance developer productivity.

**What We're Looking For**
- BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent knowledge and work experience.
- 5+ years in DevProd or related roles
- Strong background in Modern C++ (C++17 and beyond) and Python.
- Proficient with Bazel, build tools, debugging tools, toolchains and hermetic build environments
- Knowledge of CI/CD tools (e.g. GitLab CI, Jenkins).
- Expertise in software engineering principles including requirements gathering, software design, source control management, build processes, code reviews, testing methods.
- Experience with Linux environments, software, and toolchains.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Exceptional problem solving skills.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and manage multiple priorities.

**Bonus Points (not required)**
- Experience in the AV industry or robotics.
- Experience with cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, GCP).
- Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
- Experience with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Cloudwatch, Datadog).
- Experience with software development tools and services (e.g. Artifactory, Vault, Sonarqube)

**Why would you want to join us?**
- The chance to work on large scale data pipelines (PB level)
- Building cutting edge, highly scalable orchestration platforms in the cloud

**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.
- 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._