Senior Frontend Software Engineer - Map Creator

Revolutionize the future of autonomous driving with us. We are seeking a talented Senior Software Engineer to join our Map Creator team. Your work will be critical for Motional’s scalability and expansion. The successful candidate will be integral to the development of a cutting-edge, web-based semantic map annotation editor for our autonomous vehicles. This role involves managing massive-scale map data, by ensuring it can be edited, validated, and visualized, while maintaining great performance. Furthermore, you will also take part in automating map generation processes and designing efficient user workflows to drive operational profitability. Your contributions will directly shape the future of transportation.

If you're passionate about building impactful, user-friendly solutions and thrive in a collaborative, innovative environment, this is the opportunity you've been waiting for.

Ready to dive into exciting challenges? Here's what you'll be working on:

• Take product ownership, driving innovation and process improvements that elevate our entire workflow.
• Optimize web applications for peak performance, making sure our tools can handle terabytes of map data visualization, validation, and editing.
• Develop map generation and validation automations using the right algorithms to greatly improve mapping efficiency.
• Design, build, document, test, and maintain our web-based 2D/3D map editor, tools, and visualizations, ensuring they handle massive datasets with ease.
• Craft clean, maintainable code architecture that sets the standard for best practices across the team.
• Work hand-in-hand with Machine Learning teams to integrate ML-based automations, pushing the boundaries of what's possible in map annotation.
• Collaborate with diverse international teams to develop cutting-edge map solutions that meet the evolving needs of our researchers and engineers.
• Harness cutting-edge AI tools to supercharge your daily workflow, and actively contribute to integrating agentic AI capabilities and guardrails directly into our development lifecycle.

We're looking for someone exceptional to join our mission. Here's who we're searching for:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or a relevant field
• 5+ years (or equivalent) of experience building complex production applications
• Strong experience with TypeScript, React, and modern software development practices.
• Ability to take product ownership of a problem from requirements and design through implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance
• Have a rock-solid grasp of engineering fundamentals, such as data structures, algorithms, observability, concurrency, parallelization, architecture, and design patterns
• Experience optimizing performance of complex applications where CPU, memory, rendering, networking, or concurrency can become bottlenecks
• Love solving complex problems and are always eager to learn something new
• Clear communication skills with a proven ability to articulate technical decisions effectively
• Bring expertise in at least one of the following areas:
• Building robust, editor-type applications that handle complex state and user interactions
• Deep understanding of geospatial data and modern mapping systems
• Direct work with WebGL and WebGPU
• Strong UI/UX design skill, making exceptionally complex workflows and tools intuitive and delightful

This isn’t just another web app. As one of our engineers has said, it’s a rare, genuinely fun frontend opportunity to take a big part in building highly interactive, 2D/3D editing tools that shape the physical world. Your work will be critical to Motional’s scalability and expansion. You will be part of an innovative, close-knit team pushing autonomous driving technology to new heights. Your work will fuel the tools powering our AVs, speed up mapping turnaround, streamline workflows, and automate the complex stuff, which are critical to Motional’s scalability and expansion.

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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. To do so successfully, we must design for everyone in our cities and on our roads. We believe in building a great place to work through a progressive, global culture that is diverse, inclusive, and ensures people feel valued at every level of the organization. Diversity helps us to see the world differently; it’s not only good for our business, it’s the right thing to do.  

Our team is behind some of the industry's largest leaps forward, including the first fully-autonomous cross-country drive in the U.S, the launch of the world's first robotaxi pilot, and operation of the world's longest-standing public robotaxi fleet. We’re driven to scale; we’re moving towards commercialization of our technology, and we need team members who are ready to embrace change and challenges.

Formed as a joint venture between Hyundai Motor Group and Aptiv, Motional is fundamentally changing how people move through their lives. Headquartered in Boston, Motional has operations in the U.S and Asia. For more information, visit  www.Motional.com and follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and YouTube.

Motional AD Inc. is an EOE. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. To comply with Federal Law, we participate in E-Verify. All newly-hired employees are queried through this electronic system established by the DHS and the SSA to verify their identity and employment eligibility.