Senior Principal Software Engineer Team Lead - Fleet Software Platform

About the role

Motional is hiring a Senior Principal Engineer Team Lead for its Fleet Software Platform, which powers the cloud software architecture, edge connectivity and commercial orchestration backbone of its global autonomous vehicle fleet. The role leads an engineering organization built around an API-first, domain-layered architecture, supporting high-scale commercial mobility operations with global partners. It covers four pillars: Partner Systems & Integrations, Fleet Orchestration, Fleet Operations & Experience, and Vehicle Connectivity & Control.

Key responsibilities

• Build, mentor and lead a global engineering organization of Principal Engineers, Engineering Managers/Team Leads and Staff/Senior Engineers across Singapore and North America, fostering technical rigor, accountability and continuous delivery.
• Drive the transition of legacy and partner-siloed services into an API-first, domain-layered foundation, with strict separation of concerns, safety-gated command execution and canonical event streams.
• Oversee sprint execution and program delivery for commercial ride-hail expansions, multi-camera WebRTC streaming and remote vehicle bring-up automation.
• Establish high-availability baselines (99.99% uptime), enterprise observability, automated incident response and zero-downtime deployments.
• Act as the main executive contact for external partner engineering teams and coordinate with Autonomous Software, Systems Engineering, Product Management, Developer Platform and Market Operations.
• Set up continuous escalation coverage and live operational support across North American and Asia-Pacific time zones.

Required profile

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related field.
• 15+ years of software engineering experience, including 6+ years in direct people management of multi-team engineering organizations.
• Proven track record of scaling teams, developing leaders and driving accountability through data-driven metrics.
• Experience defining long-term technical strategy and multi-year architectural visions for complex cloud platforms or distributed systems.
• Background in high-complexity domains such as autonomous vehicles, ride-hailing / MaaS, telematics / IoT fleet management or large-scale B2B SaaS/PaaS platforms.
• Track record of SLA/SLO baselines, SRE practices and on-call escalation for production systems where downtime affects safety or revenue.
• Exceptional executive presence and stakeholder influence, able to align technical roadmaps with business goals and global partners.

Bonus points: cross-regional engineering management experience, familiarity with edge-to-cloud telemetry, WebRTC streaming and OTA software delivery, and experience moving partner ecosystems onto a PaaS framework.