Remote Perception Engineer — AI & Robotics

Motional; United States; Remote; USD 190,000 - 245,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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401k with a company match

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life insurance

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Job summary

Motional is hiring a Perception Engineer in Boston with remote U.S. eligibility. You will design and implement perception software, train AI models, and deploy them to improve autonomous driving capabilities. The role demands hands-on development, ML deployment, and rigorous validation in a robotics context.

Applicants should have a CS/EE/Robotics degree and 2+ years in automotive software. Expect collaboration across teams, CI/CD workflows, and performance optimization for real-time systems.

Qualifications

• Requires Bachelor's or higher in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or a closely related technical field.
• Two years of industry experience in automotive industry software development.
• Two+ years in automotive software; production-grade software, ML applications, Python, C++, PyTorch, CUDA, CI/CD, Git.

Responsibilities

• Connect/drive project-level impact through technology solutions.
• Design, develop, implement, and fix features in codebase.
• Formulate problems, architect solutions, and design processes.
• Train and deploy new AI models.
• Analyze model performance and identify improvements.
• Research/evaluate emerging technologies to enhance AI models.
• Prototype, evaluate, implement, and iterate on solutions.

Skills

Python

C++

PyTorch

TensorRT/CUDA

GPU training

CI/CD pipelines

Git

Machine learning applications

Model deployment

Robotics software development

Testing and debugging

Education

Bachelor's or higher in CS/EE/Robotics

Tools

CUDA

Job description

Motional is hiring a Perception Engineer in Boston with remote U.S. eligibility. You will design and implement perception software, train AI models, and deploy them to improve autonomous driving capabilities. The role demands hands-on development, ML deployment, and rigorous validation in a robotics context.

Applicants should have a CS/EE/Robotics degree and 2+ years in automotive software. Expect collaboration across teams, CI/CD workflows, and performance optimization for real-time systems.