Principal Engineer, System Performance Analytics

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MotionalAutonomous vehicles
Location: Remote U.S.Full-TimePrincipal
Salary$200,000 — $275,000 USD
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Job Details

Experience
8+ years of experience
Required Skills
Business IntelligenceData scienceData visualization

Requirements

  • Have 8+ years of experience bridging business intelligence, data science, and strategic reporting in a highly complex technical field.
  • Bring experience in autonomous vehicles, robotics, or aerospace.
  • Hold a master’s degree in Business Analytics, Data Intelligence, or Robotics, or an MBA combined with a strong technical foundation in engineering problem spaces.
  • Demonstrate experience leading executive presentations and high-visibility reviews.
  • Use data to build a point of view that influences stakeholders and drives engineering decisions.
  • Balance long-term system maturity analysis with investigation of software release anomalies.
  • Have a foundational understanding of robotics systems, data architectures, and autonomous vehicle performance, perception, and prediction validation.
  • Apply expert judgment to data visualization, chart selection, and visual design for executive-level insights.
  • Be familiar with modern AI agent workflows and IDEs such as Cursor or GitHub Copilot.
  • Understand how API protocols such as MCP can connect SaaS tools and databases securely.

Responsibilities

  • Analyze autonomous vehicle data pipelines, including heuristic extraction, diagnostic evaluations, and ETL-driven performance data, to identify key insights.
  • Lead the weekly Software Performance Review and own leadership AV performance reporting.
  • Calibrate performance metrics to executive goals and strategic questions.
  • Partner with internal team leads to unify data streams into a cohesive release narrative.
  • Mentor junior engineers and establish practices for data visualization, chart design, and executive communication.
  • Architect and deploy automated reporting pipelines using AI workflows and integration frameworks.
  • Connect AV performance databases to presentation tools such as the Google Slides API to generate weekly reporting decks.
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