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title: 'Senior Principal Engineer Team Lead - Fleet Software Platform at Motional'
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# Senior Principal Engineer Team Lead - Fleet Software Platform at Motional

- **Company:** Motional
- **Location:** Singapore
- **Posted:** 2026-10-14
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-18
- **Apply:** https://motional.com/open-positions/?gh_jid=8032367003#/8032367003

## Job description

As the Senior Principal Engineer Team Lead of Fleet Software Platform, you will serve as the engineering leader responsible for the cloud software architecture, edge connectivity, and commercial orchestration backbone powering our global autonomous vehicle fleet. Positioned at the core of our commercial strategy, you will lead an engineering organization structured around an API-first, domain-layered architecture designed to support high-scale commercial mobility operations with world-class partners.

You will lead four integrated engineering pillars across Singapore and the US:

- Partner Systems & Integrations: B2B integration surfaces, commercial ride-hailing dispatch webhooks, dynamic operational design domain (ODD) synchronization, and trip matching.
- Fleet Orchestration: API-first core platform services, cloud routing engines, immutable configuration management, and automated fleet service/shift scheduling.
- Fleet Operations & Experience: Central fleet operations portal, commercial bring-up workflows and remote multi-vehicle field recovery tools.
- Vehicle Connectivity & Control: Edge-to-cloud abstraction layers, safety-gated execution APIs, Over-The-Air (OTA) software flashing pipelines, and real-time cabin video/audio streaming infrastructure.

You will own the overall technical strategy, operational availability, software execution roadmap, and organizational growth of the Fleet SW Platform organization, ensuring internal operational tools run as standardized API clients while enabling seamless third-party commercial partner onboarding at global scale.

What you'll be doing:

- Executive Leadership & Team Scaling: Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing global engineering organization comprising Principal Engineers, Engineering Managers/Team Leads, and Staff/Senior Engineers across Singapore and North America. Foster a culture of technical rigor, accountability, continuous delivery, and operational excellence.
- Domain Architecture Evolution: Drive the traansition of legacy and partner-siloed services into an API-first, domain-layered foundation. Champion strict separation of concerns, safety-gated command execution, and canonical event streams across offboard and onboard vehicle interfaces.
- Commercial Launch Execution: Oversee sprint execution and program delivery across critical driverless initiatives, including commercial ride-hail expansions, multi-camera WebRTC streaming, and remote vehicle bring-up automation.
- Operational Excellence & High Availability: Establish high-availability baselines (99.99% uptime), enterprise observability frameworks, automated incident response, and zero-downtime deployment pipelines across cloud environments.
- Cross-Functional & External Partner Leadership: Act as the primary executive point of contact for external partner engineering teams and collaborate internally with Autonomous Software, Systems Engineering, Product Management, Developer Platform, and Market Operations teams.
- Global Support & Operations Coverage: Partner with global engineering leaders to establish continuous escalation coverage and live operational support across North American and Asia-Pacific time zones.

What we're looking for:

- Engineering Leadership & Organizational Management: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, with 15+ years of software engineering experience, including 6+ years in direct people management leading multi-team engineering organizations (managing managers, principal engineers, or lead-level managers). Demonstrated track record of scaling teams, developing leaders, and driving organizational accountability through data-driven metrics.
- Technical Strategy & Architectural Vision: Proven track record of defining long-term technical strategies and multi-year architectural visions for complex, enterprise-grade cloud platforms or distributed systems. Ability to guide engineering teams through platform modernizations, transitioning legacy or partner-siloed systems into decoupled, API-first, domain-layered architectures.
- Domain Expertise & Industry Track Record: Strong technical and business background with a proven track record in similar high-complexity domains, such as Autonomous Vehicles (AV), Ride-Hailing / Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS), Telematics / IoT Fleet Management, or large-scale B2B SaaS/PaaS platforms.
- Operational Rigor & Production Resilience: Track record of driving SLA/SLO baselines, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices, and disciplined on-call escalation models for real-time production systems where downtime directly impacts safety or revenue.
- Executive & Stakeholder Influence: Exceptional executive presence, communication, and cross-functional leadership skills with a history of aligning technical roadmaps with broader business goals, executive leaders, and global commercial partners.

Bonus points (not required):

- Strategic experience managing cross-regional engineering organizations and operational escalation rotations across US and Asia-Pacific time zones.
- Strategic familiarity with edge-to-cloud telemetry protocols, real-time audio/video streaming infrastructure (WebRTC media pipelines), and over-the-air (OTA) software delivery frameworks.
- Proven experience driving the transition of complex internal operations and partner ecosystems onto a unified platform-as-a-service (PaaS) framework.

Why you should join us:

In this role, you will sit at the intersection of cloud software, robotics, and commercial transportation. Leading an exceptional engineering organization in Singapore, you will define the cloud architecture, orchestration engine, and connectivity backbone that enables commercial autonomous vehicle fleets to operate safely, efficiently, and at global scale. You will partner directly with global industry leaders to shape the future of autonomous mobility.

## #LI-AW1

Motional is a driverless technology company making autonomous vehicles a safe, reliable, and accessible reality. We’re driven by something more.

Our journey is always people first.

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.

Higher purpose, greater impact.

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.

Scale up, not starting up.

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](https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=3300142-1&h=1642745316&u=https%3A%2F%2Fc212.net%2Fc%2Flink%2F%3Ft%3D0%26l%3Den%26o%3D3253528-1%26h%3D3781125006%26u%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fc212.net%252Fc%252Flink%252F%253Ft%253D0%2526l%253Den%2526o%253D3089636-1%2526h%253D3468778127%2526u%253Dhttps%25253A%25252F%25252Fc212.net%25252Fc%25252Flink%25252F%25253Ft%25253D0%252526l%25253Den%252526o%25253D2881693-1%252526h%25253D646020682%252526u%25253Dhttps%2525253A%2525252F%2525252Furldefense.com%2525252Fv3%2525252F__http%2525253A%2525252Fwww.motional.com%2525252F__%2525253B!!KT8c38mO!j78LjnhAm2VK7Fu23VO6KlwqDXvVTQFMzmyzieKQqZDQksh2tpWEseK4to8eKzwsEwI%25252524%252526a%25253Dwww.Motional.com%2526a%253Dwww.Motional.com%26a%3Dwww.Motional.com&a=www.Motional.com) and follow us on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/motionaldrive), [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/67123512/), [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/motionaldrive/) and [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr__mGPkBb-KMoYWbSGuA9w).

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.

## About Motional

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Motional is an autonomous vehicle technology company developing Level 4 driverless systems for robotaxi and delivery services.
- **Entity Type**: Private (joint venture between Hyundai Motor Group and Aptiv)
- **Headquarters**: Boston, Massachusetts, USA (with offices in Las Vegas, Pittsburgh, Santa Monica, and Singapore)
- **Founded**: 2020 (formed as a joint venture; predecessor companies nuTonomy and Ottomatika founded in 2013)
- **Founders**: Motional was created as a joint venture; predecessor companies nuTonomy was co-founded by Karl Iagnemma and Emilio Frazzoli, and Ottomatika was founded by Raj Rajkumar

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Autonomous Vehicle Technology / Self-Driving Systems
- **Target Customers**: B2B partnerships with mobility networks (ride-hail and delivery platforms like Uber), enterprise fleet operators, and mobility service providers
- **Mission**: To make driverless vehicles a safe, reliable, and accessible reality, fundamentally changing how the world moves.

## Products & Services
- **Robotaxi Service (Motional Driverless)**: A fully driverless, Level 4 autonomous vehicle platform designed for ride-hail services. Currently operating commercial robotaxi services on Uber in Las Vegas as of March 2026.
- **Autonomous Delivery**: The same robotaxi platform is designed to support autonomous delivery services, complementing the ride-hail offering.
- **nuScenes Open Source Dataset**: An industry-leading open-source dataset for autonomous vehicle research, demonstrating Motional's commitment to safety-focused data sharing.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private joint venture)
- **Key Metric**: Over 130,000 autonomous rides provided with zero at-fault incidents since predecessor companies began in 2013.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Hyundai Motor Group (joint venture partner), Aptiv (joint venture partner), Uber (commercial robotaxi partnership launched in Las Vegas, March 2026).
- **Growth Signals**: Commercial launch of robotaxi service on Uber in Las Vegas (March 2026), over a decade of autonomous driving development, significant scaling of driverless testing operations.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Industry-Leading Safety Record**: Zero at-fault incidents across 130,000+ autonomous rides, with safety as the company's bedrock principle.
- **Unique Joint Venture Structure**: Combines Hyundai's manufacturing expertise (vehicle production, global scale) with Aptiv's automotive technology leadership (sensors, software, integration).
- **Proven Commercial Deployment**: First-mover advantage with a live, paying robotaxi service integrated into Uber's platform in a major US city.
- **Open Source Leadership**: The nuScenes dataset is a widely used industry benchmark, establishing Motional as a thought leader and attracting top talent.

## Strategic Focus
- **Commercialization at Scale**: Expanding the Las Vegas robotaxi service and replicating the model in new markets.
- **Platform Versatility**: Developing the same core technology for both ride-hail and delivery to maximize revenue per vehicle and market opportunity.
- **Safety-First Approach**: Continuing to lead the industry in transparency and safety data sharing to build public trust and regulatory confidence.
- **Partnership Ecosystem**: Deepening integration with Uber and pursuing additional mobility network partnerships globally.

## Why Work Here
- **Purpose-Driven Mission**: Employees are motivated by a clear social purpose: creating safer roads, more equitable transportation, and reducing emissions — not just building technology for profit.
- **Cutting-Edge Engineering Challenges**: Work on the hardest problems in robotics, machine learning, AI, software, and sensor fusion, with direct impact on a product already on the streets.
- **Culture & Values**: Described as "more human than big tech and more structured than start-ups." Core values include Safety as Bedrock, Build for Everyone (diversity & inclusion), Take Ownership, and Deliver the Future.
- **Global, Collaborative Team**: Offices across the US (Boston, Las Vegas, Pittsburgh, Santa Monica) and Asia (Singapore), with a culture that emphasizes collaboration across teams and disciplines.
- **Career Growth & Benefits**: Competitive benefits package, investment in employee development, and a "people first" approach that values career growth and well-being. Remote/hybrid policy not explicitly stated but global office presence suggests flexibility.

## Sources
1. [Motional Website](https://motional.com/)
2. [Motional Careers Page](https://motional.com/careers)
3. [Motional - What We Do](https://motional.com/what-we-do)
4. [Motional - Life at Motional](https://motional.com/life-motional)
5. [Motional - Open Positions](https://motional.com/open-positions)

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