Systems Engineer

Summary

Join Motional's Capability Performance Team as an Engineer to build a robust framework for establishing performance thresholds for autonomous vehicle (AV) capabilities. You will propose behavioral expectations for AVs, standardize performance evaluation metrics, and utilize statistical methods to set performance targets. Your work will involve analyzing simulation and real-world testing results, communicating findings to stakeholders, and automating analysis processes. This role requires strong data science, communication, and interpersonal skills. Motional offers a competitive salary and benefits package.

Requirements

• MS in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Physics, or a related field with 3 years of experience in owning the technical responsibility over a complex system preferably a perception or localization/SLAM sub-system
• Or BS in Engineering with 5 years of experience in owning the technical responsibility over a complex system preferably a perception or localization/SLAM sub-system
• Bachelor's degree and 2 years of experience in Data Science, Statistics or Computer Science OR equivalent experience in data science in relevant industry
• Experience in evaluating Autonomous Driving Behavior
• Fluency in SQL or similar languages
• Fluency in data visualization techniques
• Python coding experience
• Excellent interpersonal skills to build relationships with other teams
• Excellent communication skills; effective in communicating complex concepts and driving resolutions
• Self-starter who is motivated to set and achieve goals and takes initiative to drive ambiguous tasks/projects to completion

Responsibilities

• Propose behavioral expectations on AV capabilities
• Support standardization of metrics used in performance evaluation for AV Capabilities to ensure consistency
• Effectively utilize existing metrics and propose the need for new metrics to evaluate AV performance in large scale simulation testing
• Propose soft/hard targets for metrics using statistical methods and back them up with driving data
• Characterize the performance target against parameters used to define AV capabilities to provide nuance in performance evaluation
• Propose and implement ideas to analyze simulation, resimulation, public road and closed course testing results for stakeholders in Systems, Autonomy, Safety etc
• Deliver strategic insights and recommendations based on AV capability testing by building meaningful visualizations
• Focus on automating simulation result analysis processes and gaps, removing manual processes where applicable
• Support the development, execution, and analyses of scenario simulation test cases for features validation
• Communicate test results to development teams and management and facilitate the resolving of technical issues

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters degree in Data Science or Computer Science
• Experience in Autonomous Vehicles or other robotics industries
• Experience using simulation tools

Benefits

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