Senior Motion Planning Engineer - Safety-Layer 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 $172K - $229K. Posted on Oct 16, 2026, and still on Motional’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
are growing to support more complex scenarios and the scaling of Motional’s deployment area, we are looking for a Senior Motion Planning - Safety-Layer to help build a robust motion planning safety-layer. You will work on enabling cutting-edge capabilities for Motional’s AV, including algorithm design and documentation, software development, metrics definition, simulation implementation and evaluation, and…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on Motional’s careers page.
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