We are actively seeking a highly motivated and exceptional senior engineering manager to lead the Map Engineering team. The team is responsible for the design and development of cutting-edge systems and software for Motional's current and future Mapping efforts. This role is critical in leading the scaling and operationalization of our production mapping pipeline. As a manager of the Mapping organization, you will be responsible for supporting multiple sub-teams.

This is an exciting opportunity to have a direct impact on the company's business goals by helping the teams solve complex technical problems, which allows us to reliably scale production maps to meet the high-reliability needs of commercial operations.

What You'll Be Doing

• Provide people leadership and build a strong engineering and leadership bench within the Mapping organization.
• Partner with leadership to influence the long-term vision and technical strategy for scaling production mapping solutions, emphasizing cloud-native infrastructure and real-time update capabilities.
• Serve as an interface and collaboration partner with key adjacent domains (Localization, Perception, and Planning) and customers (Mapping Operations, Commercial).
• Uplevel the teams by creating robust processes and quality frameworks that increase productivity, efficiency, and output for safety-critical systems.
• Own the operationalization of the commercial mapping pipeline, focusing on throughput, reliability, and low-latency map delivery to the AV stack.
• Prioritize safety above all else in designing and implementing software solutions, ensuring the highest standards of safety in our autonomous driving efforts.
• Regularly evaluate current technology and technical standards; promote and implement new technologies, best practices, and process improvements across the data and compute stack.
• Oversee the design and architecture of scalable mapping infrastructure and tools, supporting petabyte-scale data processing.
• Oversee the development and deployment of efficient and reliable large-scale distributed systems.

What We're Looking For

• BS or MS in Computer Science or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience managing engineers and 2+ years of managing managers in a fast-paced production environment.
• Proven ability to partner with leadership and set a multi-year vision and technical strategy for complex engineering domains.
• Proven ability to partner and collaborate with upstream and downstream teams to balance urgent short-term deliverables with smart long-term investments.
• Experience partnering with technical leadership on the team to build and execute the technical roadmap.
• Experience building resilient teams, leadership bench and upleveling them with coaching and resources.
• Experience building and shipping production software with demonstrated technical judgment to make informed technical and product decisions in a safety-critical environment.
• Deep technical experience designing and operating large-scale data processing pipelines and geospatial infrastructure.
• Experience integrating Machine Learning or Computer Vision techniques for automated map feature extraction and quality validation.
• Experience in the Mapping / Robotics / AV industry is strongly preferred.

Bonus Points

• Specific knowledge of high-definition map formats, dynamic map layers, and map data validation.
• Familiarity with cloud-based geodata processing platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).