Senior / Staff Frontend Software Engineer - Map Creator

About the role

Motional, a driverless technology company founded as a joint venture between Hyundai Motor Group and Aptiv, is looking for a Senior or Staff Frontend Software Engineer for its Map Creator team. The role builds a web-based semantic map annotation editor for autonomous vehicles, handling massive-scale map data that must be editable, validated and visualized with high performance, and helping automate map generation and user workflows.

Key responsibilities

• Build, test and maintain the web-based 2D/3D map editor, visualization tools and validation systems
• Optimize performance across CPU, memory, rendering, networking and concurrency for workflows involving terabytes of map data
• Develop map generation and validation automations, and work with Machine Learning teams to integrate ML-based automation into annotation workflows
• Collaborate with international engineering, research and operations teams, and use modern AI tools to integrate agentic AI capabilities and guardrails
• Senior Engineer: own and deliver multi-month projects end to end, review code and mentor team members
• Staff Engineer: define multi-quarter technical roadmaps, lead cross-functional initiatives, own core Map Creator architecture, set engineering standards and mentor Senior Engineers

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Strong experience with TypeScript, React and modern software development practices
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, architecture, concurrency, parallelization, observability and design patterns
• Senior Engineer: 5+ years of experience, proven track record of multi-month projects, mentoring experience
• Staff Engineer: 7+ years of experience, proven ability to lead multi-quarter initiatives and own system-level architecture

Required skills

• Expertise in at least one area: complex editor applications with advanced state management, geospatial data processing and mapping systems, high-performance visualization with WebGL or WebGPU, or UI/UX design for complex workflows
• Bonus points: autonomous vehicles and HD maps, large-scale dataset processing, ML-based automation or agentic AI integration, and developer productivity improvements