Principal Engineer Tech Lead, Embodied AI & Off-Board Performance Evaluation

Mission Summary

Motional is a leading autonomous driving company on a mission to make driverless vehicles a safe, reliable, and accessible reality. Backed by Hyundai Motor Group, Motional is at the forefront of the physical AI revolution. Motional isn't just building first-of-its-kind technology; we are transforming transportation to create safer streets and more sustainable mobility options.

The Systems Readiness and Performance team is the crucial bridge between software development and real-world deployment. We are responsible for driving system design, for verifying and validating the autonomy stack, and for defining, measuring, and validating system performance targets. We work closely with stakeholders in autonomy, infrastructure, and operations to build the definitive safety case for the commercial launch of our fully driverless IONIQ 5 robotaxis in Las Vegas later this year.

We are seeking a talented Principal Engineer to technically oversee the design, development, and deployment of a novel Embodied AI and Large Language Model (LLM)-based monitoring framework for off-board scenario understanding, intelligence evaluation, and root cause analysis. While this role will pioneer future off-board Vision-Language-Action (VLA) integrations for off-board analysis, it requires strong foundations as an Autonomous Vehicle Performance Metrics developer.

You will lead the creation of a specialized, off-board evaluation layer that consumes AV drive logs and fleet data to automatically infer scenario safety and assess driving intelligence without running live on the vehicle. Your architectural designs will integrate with internal systems to form a complete pipeline that identifies safety incidents, enriches them with structured context, and conducts detailed root cause analysis to provide the Autonomy team with actionable direction. If you are an innovative individual contributor with a passion for overseeing the integration of complex, scalable...