Senior Perception Engineer - Autonomous Driving AI Lead

Motional; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 172,000 - 229,000; Full time

Job summary

Motional is seeking a Perception engineer in Boston to advance Level 4 autonomous driving through scalable perception systems and real-time inference on fleets. You will lead architecture, data generation, distillation to onboard models, and mentor engineers while collaborating with ML researchers to push state-of-the-art capabilities.

This role offers opportunities to influence safety, reliability, and social impact within a fast-growing company.

Qualifications

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Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture and development of advanced perception systems, focusing on large-scale multi-modal foundation models and robust knowledge generalization across vehicle generations.
• Architect and scale synthetic data generation and sensor simulation capabilities to tackle long-tail edge cases, unseen off-log scenarios, and closed-loop evaluation.
• Drive knowledge transfer from large teacher/foundation models to efficient onboard real-time perception models via advanced distillation and post-training techniques.
• Productionize and deploy solutions onto autonomous vehicle fleets.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to senior and mid-level engineers on the team.

Skills

ML/CS/Robotics experience

Python

Deep learning

Communication skills

Mentoring

Education

Masters or PhD in ML/CS/Robotics

Tools

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Job description

Motional is seeking a Perception engineer in Boston to advance Level 4 autonomous driving through scalable perception systems and real-time inference on fleets. You will lead architecture, data generation, distillation to onboard models, and mentor engineers while collaborating with ML researchers to push state-of-the-art capabilities.

This role offers opportunities to influence safety, reliability, and social impact within a fast-growing company.