# Principal Engineer, System Performance Analytics

Mission Summary: Motional is a leading autonomous driving company on a mission to make driverless vehicles a safe, reliable, and accessible reality. Backed by Hyundai Motor Group, Motional is at the forefront of the physical AI revolution. Motional isn’t just building first-of-its-kind technology; we are transforming transportation to create safer streets and more sustainable mobility options. The Systems Readiness and Performance team is the crucial bridge between software development and real-world deployment. We are responsible for driving system design, for verifying and validating the autonomy stack, and for defining, measuring, and validating system performance targets. We work closely with stakeholders in autonomy, infrastructure, and operations to build the definitive safety case for the commercial launch of our fully driverless IONIQ 5 robotaxis in Las Vegas later this year. We are seeking a Principal Engineer to own and elevate the autonomous vehicle performance executive reporting for our organization. As a critical leader within the team, you will be the definitive voice translating complex robotics data, autonomy insights, and system performance metrics into compelling

- **Id**: 3285493
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/motional-principal-engineer-system-performance-analytics>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Boston, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-07-09T14:10:01Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-26
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T07:34:30Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 121
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 9461
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: 401k plan, Equity, Life insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Athlete Training, Autonomous Driving, Smart Mobility

## Company

- **Id**: 66433
- **Name**: Motional
- **Domain**: motional.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/motional-com>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 83
- **Open postings**: 13
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.462
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 79
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 200000
- **Max**: 275000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 275000

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Copilot** — Optional: no
- **Cursor** — Optional: no
- **ETL/ELT** — Optional: no
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 121

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-10-26T18:14:25Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 26
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.713
- **P room**: 0.36
- **Age days**: 121
- **Expected fill days**: 79
- **Reasons**: conf:2, velocity, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 275000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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