Principal Engineer, Team Lead-Data Platform

Summary

Join Motional as a Principal Engineer to lead a team in building, improving, and maintaining large-scale data processing and transformation pipelines for autonomous vehicle (AV) data. You will manage a team, work with stakeholders, design and build scalable data processing systems using cloud ETL technology, implement self-service data pipelines, and write high-quality code. This hands-on role requires expertise in Python, AWS services, distributed systems, and project leadership. The ideal candidate possesses strong communication skills and thrives in a fast-paced environment. Motional offers a competitive salary and benefits package.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience as a data engineer or data pipeline engineer
• BS or MS in Computer Science or related field
• Expertise with Python programming
• Expertise with AWS services and solutions (EKS, Lambda, ETL)
• Experience with distributed system design and development
• Experience leading projects from end to end, designing and delivering and production stages
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, continuous delivery environment

Responsibilities

• Lead and provide mentorship to a team of engineers both technically and professionally
• Manage and drive team timelines, project commitments, and roadmap deliverables
• Work closely with users, leadership, and stakeholders to align and coordinate product design, project execution, and operational usage in setting and achieving objectives and key results
• Design, build, and maintain scalable data processing and access with cloud ETL technology
• Implement interfaces to enable self service data pipelines
• Write high quality, maintainable code to process terabytes of data
• Lead and champion high-level system design and quality code reviews/technical contributions
• Ability to take a strong sense of ownership and responsibility for mentoring engineers

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Infrastructure Monitoring
• Experience working in cross-functional development teams
• Experience working with microservices
• Experience with people management

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 401k with a company match
• Health saving accounts
• Life insurance
• Pet insurance
• Bonus or company equity