Principal Engineer Team Lead - Trajectory Planning Lead at Motional

You're a seasoned engineering leader with a Master's or PhD in a quantitative field like Robotics or Computer Science, ready to guide a team in developing core trajectory planning algorithms for autonomous vehicles. Your expertise lies in numerical optimization and optimal control, with a strong understanding of the full robotics stack. **What makes it worth a look...** This fully remote Principal Engineer Team Lead role at Motional offers a salary of $240,000—$330,000 USD per year, focusing on shaping the motion planning systems for commercial autonomous vehicles. **You might be a good fit if you...** * Have 2+ years managing development teams and shipping production-quality algorithms in high-stakes environments. * Possess deep theoretical and practical expertise in numerical optimization, optimal control, Model Predictive Control, and nonlinear programming. * Are fluent in Modern C++ for real-time, safety-critical code and Python for prototyping and analysis. * Have experience with AI-augmented development workflows for large C++ codebases.