Principal Technical Lead Manager - AI Data Applications

Role Description

We are seeking an experienced and visionary Principal Technical Lead Manager to build and lead our new AI Data Application team. This pivotal role will drive the strategy, development, and execution of initiatives aimed at significantly accelerating our ML dataset generation and data search applications. The ultimate goal is to drastically reduce the development cycle for new pipelines, ML models and get us operationally prepared for a driverless future!

You will be a hands-on leader, blending deep technical expertise in data systems and infrastructure with strong leadership and people management skills. You will recruit, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvements.

What You'll Be Doing

• Team Leadership & Management:
  • Build, lead, and manage a high-performing team of full stack web engineers.
  • Define team goals, priorities, and roadmap in alignment with company objectives.
  • Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and career development opportunities to team members.
• Technical Strategy & Execution:
  • Define the technical vision and strategy for building services and web platforms for storing and searching metadata and forming datasets.
  • Define AI adoption strategy for frontend codebase and UX projects to speed up development and time to market.
  • Identify and evaluate cutting-edge technologies and methodologies for querying through datasets stored in various types of databases (think images in vector store, metadata in Postgres, etc) and APIs owned by several teams across the company.
• Cross-functional Collaboration:
  • Collaborate closely with data mining, ML researchers, and other data platform teams to understand their needs and integrate solutions seamlessly.
  • Communicate complex technical concepts and strategies to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science or related field
• 8+ years of professional experience in building web applications
• 3+ years of experience in a technical lead or management role
• Extensive experience with building web applications for search and data curation needs.
• Extensive experience with API and query federation technologies such as GraphQL or AWS Athena.

Requirements

• Strong programming skills in Typescript and Python.
• Strong knowledge of modern frontend technologies such as React.
• Strong knowledge of building REST and gRPC based services, ideally in Python.
• Prior experience with building web applications for engineering or machine learning needs.

Bonus Points (not required)

• Prior experience in autonomous vehicles (AV) is a plus.
• Prior experience with Bazel based build systems.
• Prior experience with developing frontend workflows using LLMs.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision
• 401k with a company match
• Health saving accounts
• Life insurance
• Pet insurance
• And more

Salary Range

$240,000 — $330,000 USD

Company Description

Motional is a driverless technology company making autonomous vehicles a safe, reliable, and accessible reality. We’re driven by something more.

• Our journey is always people first.
• We aren't just developing driverless cars; we're creating safer roadways, more equitable transportation options, and making our communities better places to live, work, and connect.
• Our team is made up of engineers, researchers, innovators, dreamers and doers, who are creating a technology with the potential to transform the way we move.
• We’re creating first-of-its-kind technology that will transform transportation.
• Formed as a joint venture between Hyundai Motor Group and Aptiv, Motional is fundamentally changing how people move through their lives.