Staff AI Data Engine Architect — Remote

Doist; Las Vegas, Pittsburgh, Boston (NV, Allegheny County, MA); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 275,000; Full time

Job summary

Motional is a driverless technology company advancing autonomous transportation. We are seeking a Staff Engineer to anchor our AI Data Engine team, delivering scalable data architectures and pipelines for ML datasets and the data warehouse stack.

You will mentor engineers, set technical standards, and guide cross‑functional collaboration with ML research and data engineering to accelerate delivery and prepare for driverless scale.

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science or related field
• 6+ years of professional experience in data platform engineering
• 3+ years of experience in a technical lead, staff engineer, or senior architecture role, with a proven track record of driving cross‑team technical initiatives and mentoring senior engineers
• Extensive experience with managing large (petabyte plus) scale data platforms such as data warehouses, object storage, and ML training data stores
• Extensive experience with workflow orchestration frameworks such as Airflow or Step Functions

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical anchor for a high‑performing team of data and infrastructure engineers building out Motional’s Data Stack.
• Define and execute the technical vision and architecture for storing metrics and generating ML datasets for large computer vision and behavioral models.
• Identify, evaluate, and prototype cutting‑edge technologies and methodologies for speeding up data loaders for training, ingestion of metrics, and querying of large datasets for dashboards and training.
• Collaborate closely with ML research, ML Training platform, and data engineering teams to understand requirements, co‑design scalable architectures, and integrate solutions seamlessly.
• Drive technical consensus and communicate complex architectural concepts to technical and non‑technical stakeholders.

Skills

Python

C++

Mentoring

Airflow

AWS

GCP

Distributed systems

Education

BS or MS in CS

Tools

LangChain

LlamaIndex

DSPy

Parquet

Iceberg

LanceDB

Milvus

Qdrant

Job description

Motional is a driverless technology company advancing autonomous transportation. We are seeking a Staff Engineer to anchor our AI Data Engine team, delivering scalable data architectures and pipelines for ML datasets and the data warehouse stack.

You will mentor engineers, set technical standards, and guide cross‑functional collaboration with ML research and data engineering to accelerate delivery and prepare for driverless scale.