Autonomy Prediction & Behavior Engineering Lead

Maymobility; United States; Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

May Mobility in Ann Arbor, MI, seeks an Engineering Manager for Prediction within the Behavior team to steer trajectory and intent prediction systems. You will lead a team of engineers bridging ML and robotics architectures to build multi-agent prediction capabilities for the MPDM platform.

You will partner across autonomy, infrastructure and remote operations, drive architectural roadmaps, enforce code quality, and mentor talent while delivering on high-uncertainty projects in a hybrid work

Qualifications

• 5+ years managing technical teams or leading technical project teams.
• Bachelor's Degree in a relevant technical field (Robotics, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, etc)
• Strong leadership skills and ability to lead and manage a team of 5+ people
• Ability to mentor technical team members and grow their technical and inter-personal skills
• Experience working cross-functionally with other engineering teams, operations, and external partners
• Experience delivering projects with high uncertainty on time
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with ability to communicate complex technical topics to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Data driven and able to drive creation and maintenance of metrics/KPIs that measure progress for your team
• Advanced knowledge of Jira and Jira reporting and dashboards
• Proficiency with BI tools (e.g., AWS QuickSight, Tableau) for building operational dashboards and reporting that scale with fleet growth

Responsibilities

• Guide the evolution of intent and prediction architectures, balancing classical robotics with data-driven machine learning approaches.
• Partner cross-functionally with Behavior, Modeling, Perception, and Remote Assistance teams to maintain long-term architectural roadmaps and align deliverables with leadership strategy.
• Integrate safety metrics, risk assessments, and Operational Design Domain (ODD) requirements into team delivery and testing milestones.
• Collaborate with infrastructure and tooling teams to accelerate iteration cycles.
• Incorporate Root Cause Analyses (RCAs) into the team's backlog and provide engineering escalation support when field issues require deep domain expertise.
• Enforce rigorous code quality standards and design reviews, ensuring complete engineering ownership of deliverables.
• Grow, onboard, mentor, and continuously develop engineering talent through both internal development and external hiring.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

Data-driven decision making

Metrics/KPIs

Verbal and written communication

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Robotics, CS, ME or related

Master's degree in a relevant field (Desirable)

Tools

Jira

Jira reporting

Tableau

AWS QuickSight

Job description

May Mobility in Ann Arbor, MI, seeks an Engineering Manager for Prediction within the Behavior team to steer trajectory and intent prediction systems. You will lead a team of engineers bridging ML and robotics architectures to build multi-agent prediction capabilities for the MPDM platform.

You will partner across autonomy, infrastructure and remote operations, drive architectural roadmaps, enforce code quality, and mentor talent while delivering on high-uncertainty projects in a hybrid work