Senior Autonomy Systems Engineer, Perception

Mission Summary:

Perception autonomy systems engineers use systematic analysis and empirical methods to understand perception performance, and its impact on the performance and safety of the driverless vehicle. We develop metrics and requirements that guide the vehicle stack improvements, debugging, testing, and validation.  We’re seeking highly motivated candidates to join our Autonomy Systems team at Motional, to help us tackle some of the most challenging technical problems facing the autonomous driving industry. You will help us improve the robustness, performance, comfort, and safety of our driverless vehicle.  

This position can support remote work within the United States, and will require occasional travel. 

What you'll be doing:

• Establish innovative approaches to tackle deep technical challenges in the
  complex hardware and software required for autonomous driving
• Propose and analyze tradeoffs between potential solutions, and derive
  requirements that enable our driverless vehicle to meet its performance,
  comfort, and safety goals
• Define, strategize interfaces between system modules; generating design
  strategies to maintain useful abstraction barriers between components
• Articulate decisions and their rationales to drive cross system alignments
  and/or cross team implementations
• Develop methods, metrics, and tests to improve the performance of onboard
  and offboard existing perception pipelines
• Collaborate with ML experts, and work across teams to:
  • develop metrics for evaluating perception sensor output quality, specifically for ML model performance
  • analyze drive logs, and test data to evaluate and verify camera image quality. Characterize the relationships between sensor placement, camera performance, perception performance, and vehicle performance to guide camera selection and perception algorithm improvement
  • Develop, execute, and/or analyze tests to demonstrate perception vision pipeline capability in difficult scenarios
• You will become comfortable with our development tool chain to perform hands-on analyses to identify issues and/or weaknesses in our system and
  recommend potential solutions. If interested, you will take part in implementing those solutions
• You will write reusable, high quality, data analysis software or models to enable accurate, efficient, and scalable analysis and data driven decisions

What we're looking for: 

• MS in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Physics, or a related field with 3+ years of experience owning the technical responsibility over a complex system, preferably a perception subsystem OR BS in Engineering with 5 years of experience owning the technical responsibility over a complex system preferably a perception sub-system
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication skills; effective in engaging cross teams for problem solving
• Proficient in Python, C, C++, or Matlab
• Familiar with ML algorithm concepts

Bonus Points:

• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Robotics, Machine Learning or a related field
• Experience with camera, image processing, computer vision, or perception
  systems with different sensing modalities
• Industry research or production experience
• Experience in high performance computing systems
• Experience with UML, simulation tools, SQL
• Experience with professional software development

The Motional global headquarters are located at 100 Northern Avenue in Boston, MA. Nestled in the bustling Seaport district with sweeping views of Boston Harbor and downtown Boston, the offices are located close to major transit lines and a quick walk to various restaurants and popular attractions.  

(Colorado only*) Salary range is $151,000-$205,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits
*Note: Disclosure as required by sb19-085(8-5-20)