Autonomy Release Engineering Lead

Motional AD Inc.; Pittsburgh, Las Vegas (Allegheny County, NV); Hybrid; USD 172,000 - 229,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401k with company match

Health savings account

Life insurance

Pet insurance

Job summary

Motional AD Inc. is seeking a Staff Engineer Team Lead for Release Engineering to grow and lead our Release team, focusing on software release and validation across our autonomous vehicle fleet.

You will own design, build, and deployment of infrastructure ensuring safe, reliable releases and collaboration with cross-functional teams. The ideal candidate has 5+ years in release engineering or autonomous systems, strong C++/Python, and proven leadership.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in autonomous driving or robotics, release engineering or simulation.
• Strong understanding of autonomy systems: Localization, Perception, Prediction, Planning, Control.
• Proven technical leadership and cross-functional team guidance.
• BS or MS in Engineering or equivalent knowledge and experience.
• Proficiency with C++ and Python; deep CI/CD experience.

Responsibilities

• Define and enforce release governance, branching strategies, and release lifecycles.
• Lead shift-left quality initiatives across pipeline stages to ensure quality upstream.
• Standardize release documentation and governance workflows across the org.
• Oversee release validation and gating to minimize branch breakages.
• Collaborate with Autonomy teams to integrate patches into release branches.

Skills

Release engineering

CI/CD pipelines

C++/Python

Cross-functional leadership

Autonomy systems

Problem solving

Collaboration

Data-driven decisions

Education

Engineering degree

Tools

Apache Airflow

Applied Intuition

AWS

Cloud Simulation

Job description

Motional AD Inc. is seeking a Staff Engineer Team Lead for Release Engineering to grow and lead our Release team, focusing on software release and validation across our autonomous vehicle fleet.

You will own design, build, and deployment of infrastructure ensuring safe, reliable releases and collaboration with cross-functional teams. The ideal candidate has 5+ years in release engineering or autonomous systems, strong C++/Python, and proven leadership.