Principal Technical Lead Manager - AI Data Applications

We are seeking an experienced and visionary Principal Technical Lead Manager to build and lead our new AI Data Application team. This pivotal role will drive the strategy, development, and execution of initiatives aimed at significantly accelerating our ML dataset generation and data search applications. The ultimate goal is to drastically reduce the development cycle for new pipelines, ML models and get us operationally prepared for a driverless future!
You will be a hands-on leader, blending deep technical expertise in data systems and infrastructure with strong leadership and people management skills. Team Leadership & Management:
Build, lead, and manage a high-performing team of full stack web engineers.
Define the technical vision and strategy for building services and web platforms for storing and searching metadata and forming datasets.
Define AI adoption strategy for frontend codebase and UX projects to speed up development and time to market.
Identify and evaluate cutting-edge technologies and methodologies for querying through datasets stored in various types of databases (think images in vector store, metadata in Postgres, etc) and APIs owned by several teams across the company.

Collaborate closely with data mining, ML researchers, and other data platform teams to understand their needs and integrate solutions seamlessly.
BS or MS in Computer Science or related field
~8+ years of professional experience in building web applications
~3+ years of experience in a technical lead or management role
~ Extensive experience with building web applications for search and data curation needs.
~ Extensive experience with API and query federation technologies such as GraphQL or AWS Athena.

Strong programming skills in Typescript and Python.
Strong knowledge of modern frontend technologies such React.
Strong knowledge of building REST and gRPC based services, ideally in Python.
Prior experience with building web applications for engineering or machine learning needs

Bonus Points (not required):

Prior experience with developing frontend workflows using LLMs.
We encourage a hybrid schedule with in-office time at one of our locations in Boston, Pittsburgh, or Las Vegas to support collaboration, or this role can be fully remote.
This role may include additional forms of compensation such as a bonus or company equity. Motional’s benefits include but are not limited to medical, dental, vision, 401k with a company match, health saving accounts, life insurance, pet insurance, and more.
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