Staff Frontend Engineer - 2D/3D Map Editor

Motional; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Motional is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the Map Creator team in Singapore. You will design and scale a web-based semantic map editor for autonomous vehicles, handling massive map data and ensuring fast, reliable performance across visualization and validation components.

You will partner with ML teams, drive multi-quarter technical initiatives, and mentor engineers while shaping architecture and workflows to maximize operational profitability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of experience building complex production applications.
• Strong experience with TypeScript, React, and modern software practices.
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, architecture, concurrency, observability, and design patterns.
• Ability to lead multi-quarter technical initiatives and own system-level architecture.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and maintain a web-based 2D/3D map editor and visualization tools.
• Optimize performance for terabytes of map data across CPU, memory, rendering, networking and concurrency.
• Develop map generation and validation automations to improve productivity.
• Collaborate with ML teams to integrate AI-based automation into workflows.
• Define technical roadmaps and lead cross-functional initiatives.

Skills

TypeScript

React

Large-scale systems

Geospatial data

Performance optimization

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

WebGL

WebGPU

Git

Job description

Motional is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the Map Creator team in Singapore. You will design and scale a web-based semantic map editor for autonomous vehicles, handling massive map data and ensuring fast, reliable performance across visualization and validation components.

You will partner with ML teams, drive multi-quarter technical initiatives, and mentor engineers while shaping architecture and workflows to maximize operational profitability.