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Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
76
+24 posted in 30 days
Backers
1
MobilityJobs
Momentum
28/100
hiring for its size, in the news
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Sep 25 First executive search Director of Data Science Jun 24 First sales or marketing role Senior Manager, Commercial Product Development 2020 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.02%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
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How Motional hires

Truth index
B 83/100
Median time to fill
91 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
50%
Reposted roles
0%

Motional scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 14 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 50% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 91 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Overview

Motional is an American autonomous driving company formed in 2020 as a joint venture between Hyundai Motor Group and Aptiv to develop and commercialize driverless vehicles. It builds the self-driving software, perception and safety systems for robotaxis based on the Hyundai IONIQ 5 and has run public robotaxi services in Las Vegas with ride-hailing partners, with engineering teams in Boston, Pittsburgh, Las Vegas and Singapore. The company is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

News

News YahooFinance 1 month ago
Motional Open-Sources Dataset to Help Autonomous Vehicles Master Human-Like Reasoning
Motional, a leader in autonomous driving technology, announces the release of nuReasoning, the world
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Blog 4 months ago
Cracking the Long-Tail Code in Autonomous Driving with nuReasoning
Cracking the Long-Tail Code in Autonomous Driving with nuReasoning mjohnson@weare… Wed, 06/03/2026 - 14:09 Cutting edge AI techniques - from Vision Language Action (VLA) and embodied models to end-to-end training approaches - are showing immense promise f
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Blog 6 months ago
TreeIRL: Safe Urban Driving with Tree Search and Inverse Reinforcement Learning
TreeIRL: Safe Urban Driving with Tree Search and Inverse Reinforcement Learning mjohnson@weare… Tue, 04/28/2026 - 20:50 Authors: Momchil S. Tomov, Sang Uk Lee, Hansford Hendrago, Jinwook Huh, Teawon Han, Forbes Howington, Rafael da Silva, Gianmarco Bernas
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Blog 6 months ago
Lab2Car: A Versatile Wrapper for Deploying Experimental Planners in Complex Real-World Environments
Lab2Car: A Versatile Wrapper for Deploying Experimental Planners in Complex Real-World Environments mjohnson@weare… Tue, 04/28/2026 - 20:48 Authors: Marc Heim, Francisco Suárez-Ruiz, Ishraq Bhuiyan, Bruno Brito, Momchil S. Tomov Pu...
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DriveIRL: Drive in Real Life with Inverse Reinforcement Learning
DriveIRL: Drive in Real Life with Inverse Reinforcement Learning mjohnson@weare… Tue, 04/28/2026 - 20:23 Authors: Tung Phan-Minh, Forbes Howington, Ting-Sheng Chu, Momchil S. Tomov, Robert E. Beaudoin, Sang Uk Lee, Nanxiang Li, Caglayan Dicle, Samuel Find
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Motional Robotaxis Now Available on Uber in Las Vegas
Motional Robotaxis Now Available on Uber in Las Vegas mjohnson@weare… Tue, 04/21/2026 - 14:46 Beginning today, everyone has the chance to catch a ride in a Motional Robotaxi on the @Uber ride hail network in Las Vegas, all you need is the Uber app on your
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Daekwon Ko
Daekwon Ko mjohnson@weare… Thu, 04/02/2026 - 13:19 Daekwon Ko is the Chief Financial Officer at Motional. Daekwon brings decades of finance and global leadership experience to the Motional team, most recently serving as the Chief Financial Officer fo...
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Phil Michel
Phil Michel mjohnson@weare… Thu, 04/02/2026 - 13:15 Phil Michel is the Senior Vice President of Autonomy & AI at Motional, responsible for the science, engineering, and strategic direction behind Motional's autonomous driving technology. Previous...
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Uber and Motional Launch Robotaxi Service in Las Vegas
Uber and Motional Launch Robotaxi Service in Las Vegas lflanagan@wear… Thu, 03/12/2026 - 18:29 Starting today, Uber Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: UBER) and Motional, a leader in autonomous vehicle technology that is majority owned by Hyundai Motor Group, anno
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Liability Waiver for Rides
Liability Waiver for Rides mjohnson@weare… Wed, 03/04/2026 - 22:13 h1 class="her...
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Motional over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
138
Postings analysed
89
Stack modernity
74/100AI adopter
Languages
Python72%
C++40%
SQL16%
Go11%
Frameworks & libraries
PyTorch16%
CUDA11%
React.js8%
PyTorch C++8%
Databases
PostgreSQL6%
Trino2%
Amazon Redshift1%
DynamoDB1%
Cloud & platforms
AWS29%
Linux20%
CUDA Toolkit11%
GCP11%
AI & ML
LLM8%
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Full Motional tech stack 138 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$199k
Typical range
$52k – $396k
Open positions
61
59 Jobs
Junior 5.1%
Middle 1.7%
Senior 59.3%
Staff 13.6%
Principal 15.3%
Architect 5.1%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Junior 3 $164k $110k – $198k
Middle 1 $110k $110k
Senior 35 $199k $52k – $245k
Staff 8 $227k $191k – $229k
Principal 9 $275k $242k – $330k
Architect 3 $330k $292k – $396k
Highest paying role Director of Data Science $396k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Motional By role, level and city, against the market · 61 jobs with pay

Growth

Hiring Momentum
64/100
Growing
Open positions
76
18 opened / 13 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
83 days
faster than 16% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~3 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Backend
21% ▲
Field & Service
11% ▲
Leadership
10% ▲
Robotics
8% ▲
DevOps
7% ▲
QA
7% ▼
Actively hiring for Backend (+8 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added Hypothesis to stack Oct 2026
Added World Models to stack Oct 2026
Added Perception to stack Oct 2026
Added Databricks to stack Oct 2026
Added WebSockets to stack Sep 2026
Added WebRTC to stack Sep 2026
Added Redis to stack Sep 2026
Added Amazon ECS to stack Sep 2026
Added Agentic Workflows to stack Sep 2026
Added ROS to stack Sep 2026
Added LLM Guardrails to stack Sep 2026
Added Service Desk to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
4
Hiring now
4
Countries
2
Busiest office
Boston
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Boston United States
HQ
Remote U.S. Only
40 open roles 28 posted in 90 days 58% engineering 35% remote 10-50 est. staff $230k Avg Salary
hires for Robotics, Leadership, Industrial Engineering
seen since Feb 2025 careers board, job postings
Pittsburgh United States
Plant / site
Pittsburgh
43 open roles 31 posted in 90 days 60% engineering 21% remote 10-50 est. staff $217k Avg Salary
hires for Robotics, Backend, DevOps
seen since Feb 2025 careers board, job postings
Las Vegas United States
Engineering / R&D
Las Vegas
39 open roles 33 posted in 90 days 59% engineering 15% remote 10-50 est. staff $215k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Leadership, Robotics
opened 1970 seen since Jan 2026 careers board, job postings
Singapore Singapore
Engineering / R&D
Singapore
14 open roles 9 posted in 90 days 93% engineering 7% remote 10-50 est. staff
hires for Backend, AI/ML, Frontend
seen since Aug 2025 careers board, job postings

Jobs

$172k – $229k per year • Remote (United States) • 3+ years exp • PhD • Boston • Las Vegas • Pittsburgh
Python
SQL
C++
Reinforcement Learning
Multimodal AI
AI Agents
Time Series Forecasting
Machine Learning
DevOps
GitLab
Linux
Robotics
Motion Planning
Reinforcement Learning
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$149k – $199k per year • In office • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Boston • Las Vegas
Python
Hypothesis
AI/ML
Machine Learning
DevOps
CI/CD
Git
Analytics
Looker
Management
Agile
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$149k – $199k per year • Hybrid • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Las Vegas • Pittsburgh
Python
SQL
C++
PostgreSQL
Trino
DevOps
GCP
Azure
CI/CD
Git
AWS
Linux
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$149k – $199k per year • In office • Las Vegas • Boston • Pittsburgh
C++
eBPF
Linux
TCP/IP
Robotics
ROS2
NVIDIA Drive
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$149k – $199k per year • In office • Boston • Las Vegas • Pittsburgh
C++
eBPF
Linux
TCP/IP
Robotics
ROS2
NVIDIA Drive
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≈ $69k – $130k per year (Estimated) • In office • 15+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Singapore
WebRTC
CI/CD
SLI/SLO/SLA
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$240k – $330k per year • Hybrid • 12+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Boston • Las Vegas • Pittsburgh
Physical AI
Machine Learning
DevOps
Platform Engineering
Linux
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$125k – $167k per year • In office • 5+ years exp • Las Vegas
AI Agents
DevOps
Rest API
IAM
Cybersecurity
Okta
CyberArk
Zero Trust
Least Privilege
Active Directory
Management
Service Desk
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$176k – $242k per year • In office • Bachelor's Degree • Las Vegas
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$149k – $199k per year • Hybrid • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Boston • Las Vegas • Pittsburgh
Python
SQL
Transformers
Time Series Forecasting
Machine Learning
DevOps
AWS
Robotics
Motion Planning
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$172k – $229k per year • Remote (United States) • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Las Vegas
C++
CI/CD
GitLab
Robotics
ROS
Management
Confluence
Jira
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$144k – $192k per year • In office • Las Vegas
Python
CI/CD
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