Senior Software Engineer, Engineering Enablement

About the role

Motional is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join its Engineering Enablement team and drive company-wide developer productivity. You will build and evolve internal platforms, services and toolchains that power engineering workflows, partnering with teams across the organization to remove bottlenecks and help them move from code to production quickly and confidently.

Key responsibilities

• Build scalable backend services, CI/CD pipelines, build systems, toolchains and platforms that support developer workflows.
• Work with engineering teams to understand their needs, identify pain points and drive initiatives that improve development workflows.
• Improve reliability, performance, scalability and observability of distributed systems by introducing new tools and features.
• Monitor system performance and health, proactively identifying and resolving issues before they affect users.
• Contribute to system architecture decisions and technical roadmaps.

Required profile

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• 5+ years in software engineering or related roles.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, able to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Required skills

• Modern programming languages, especially Python, Go and C++.
• Unix-like environments, software and toolchains.
• CI/CD tools such as GitLab CI and Jenkins.
• Cloud platforms such as AWS and GCP, and infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Ability to turn ambiguous goals into software requirements.
• Bonus: AV industry or robotics experience, deep knowledge of mono-repo tools like Bazel, on-call experience for P1/P0 systems, and experience building MCP servers for AI/LLM integration.