Principal Software Engineer, Team Lead - Perception Platforms is open at Motional in Boston, Massachusetts, United States; Las Vegas, Nevada, United States; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States; Remote U.S.. The posting gives a salary of $240K - $330K. Posted on Oct 19, 2026, and still on Motional’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
to work with world-class ML engineers and research scientists to make self-driving vehicles a reality. The Perception Platform team is central to this mission, operating at the intersection of ML Infrastructure and Perception. We build the foundational frameworks, evaluation pipelines, and tooling that enable our Perception team to scale their work on the tech stack responsible for perceiving the dynamic world…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on Motional’s careers page.
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