By joining the Office of the CTO, you can directly contribute to the realization of this mission by supporting the CTO and the broader engineering team at Motional. As a Technical Advisor, your role will be primarily technical but will require cross-disciplinary work. You will be directly tasked with executing on key engineering projects, developing our technical strategy, facilitating research into new technologies, or prototyping a new system. The role will often involve cross-disciplinary work, and you can expect to regularly interact with engineers and leaders from across Motional. The role is primarily technical, but may also involve cross-disciplinary collaboration with the Product, Marketing, Legal, or Operations teams at Motional.

What You’ll Do

• Developing Motional’s technical strategy alongside the CTO and lead engineers across several engineering disciplines in constantly refining our strategy. 
• Acting as the CTO’s representative where appropriate in internal or external discussions. 
• Producing technical analysis on relevant emerging technologies and providing insight and analysis to Motional’s executive leadership
• Working jointly with engineering leads across the company as needed to ensure efficient execution on key engineering projects
• Research the deep domain and topics to synthesize key opportunities, issues, and progress to-date. 
• Help teams evolve their understanding of a new Motional culture of engineering, in partnership with the engineering leaders who develop and prescribe such new evidence based practices.
• Conduct market trend analysis and research based on CTO’s request

What We’re Looking For

• 8+ years of demonstrated experience in Technical Program Management, Software Engineering, or Data Science. 10+ years preferred.
• 2 years of algorithm experience
• A track record of technical or product achievements
• A background in hardware (electrical/mechanical/computer) or software engineering and/or technical product management
• A willingness to get your hands dirty in technical projects, including contributing directly to engineering efforts
• Confident and clear verbal and written communication skills, tailored as necessary for the audience (ranging from engineers to senior executives)
• A passion for automation, robotics, and related technologies

Bonus points!

• Experience working on a robotic or advanced automated systems in production
• Experience conducting research on robotics and automation in an industry or academic setting
• Experience leading teams of engineers and/or product managers or other technical leadership experience
• Software development proficiency in any programming language
• Hardware development proficiency

If you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications outlined above - that’s okay! We encourage you to apply if you think this is a role that would make you excited to come into work every day and that you can deliver the results we need.