Senior Mechanical Engineer, Vehicle Platform

Motional's Pittsburgh office is located in the new Hazelwood Green development, a culmination of the city's goal of restoring an economic driver to the neighborhood in a thoughtful, inclusive, and sustainable way. With views along the Monongahela river, the Pittsburgh office is in the heart of this new state of the art development.

Mission Summary:
Our Vehicle Engineering team, focused on Vehicle and Product Systems in Pittsburgh, is seeking a highly motivated Senior Mechanical Engineer to own and drive complex, cross-functional mechanical design and fabrication initiatives for our next-generation vehicle prototypes and systems. This role will serve as a key technical authority, defining system-level architecture for mechatronic systems for automated driving and leading execution with minimal oversight, ensuring alignment with broad business and product objectives.

What you'll do:

• Technical Leadership and Design Ownership: Lead the design effort for significant vehicle build projects and technical initiatives, creating project proposals and designs that span multiple sub-systems.
• Advanced Mechanical Design: Design and fabricate mechanical components and complex systems for next-generation benchtop and in-vehicle prototypes, such as mechatronic systems for automated driving.
• Prototyping and Documentation: Create detailed 3D CAD models and sufficient engineering drawings for manufacturing of mechanical components. Create comprehensive bills of materials (BOM) and assembly documentation.
• Process Improvement: Design, build, or improve internal processes, documentation, and structure for the team, focusing on efficiency and quality.
• Testing and Validation: Develop and implement rigorous testing plans for vehicles and subsystems, and perform initial testing and debugging of newly-assembled systems to ensure high quality and reliability.
• System Integration: Work with customers, suppliers, and technology partners to define requirements, explain trade-offs, and integrate complex systems in vehicles.
• Mentorship and Collaboration: Provide technical mentorship and long-term development guidance to cross-functional team members, effectively communicating across teams to achieve project results.
• Supply Chain Management: Source critical suppliers and parts and create documentation for outsourced components, managing the manufacturing BOM and Engineering Change Notice (ECN) process.
• Requirements Management: Develop and document system-level requirements for prototype and production vehicle systems, considering all sub-systems.
• Roadmap Contribution: Help define the technical roadmap and architecture based on technology and business needs.

What we're looking for:

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field.
• Experience: 7+ years relevant experience, preferably in the automotive, robotics, or automation fields, demonstrating a track record of driving project-level impact.
• Design Expertise: Extensive experience designing and fabricating prototypes using advanced CAD tools (e.g., Solidworks and Catia V5) and manual methods.
• Fabrication Skills: Ability to operate machine tools (mill, press, CNC, etc.), as well as standard mechanics and power tools; experience with 3D printing tools and rapid prototyping techniques.
• Vehicle Systems: Comfortable debugging, disassembling, modifying, and installing electrical and mechanical systems in vehicles.
• Mechatronics: Advanced experience in specifying, integrating, troubleshooting, and testing electronics, motors, and sensors.
• Manufacturing Process: Expertise with manufacturing BOM and ECN processes.
• Execution: Proven ability to work effectively within rigid design, integration, and time constraints, delivering high-quality and reliable execution.
• Collaboration & Communication: Intermediate proficiency in collaboration, including the ability to get buy-in and create alignment across teams and stakeholders. Ability to interface globally with persons of all levels and abilities, including both internal and external teams, to achieve project success. This may include occasional work outside of standard hours to accommodate international collaboration.
• Attributes: Self-motivated, organized, flexible, and able to balance and prioritize multiple diverse projects.

This role is based in our Pittsburgh office and requires in-office days each week.

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors including but not limited to specific skills, experience and expertise, role location, certifications, licenses, and business needs. The estimated compensation range listed in this job posting reflects base salary only. This role may include additional forms of compensation such as a bonus or company equity. The recruiter assigned to this role can share more information about the specific compensation and benefit details associated with this role during the hiring process.

Candidates for certain positions are eligible to participate in Motional's benefits program. Motional's benefits include but are not limited to medical, dental, vision, 401k with a company match, health saving accounts, life insurance, pet insurance, and more.

Salary Range

$125,000-$167,000 USD

Motional is a driverless technology company making autonomous vehicles a safe, reliable, and accessible reality. We're driven by something more.

Our journey is always people first.

We aren't just developing driverless cars; we're creating safer roadways, more equitable transportation options, and making our communities better places to live, work, and connect. Our team is made up of engineers, researchers, innovators, dreamers and doers, who are creating a technology with the potential to transform the way we move.

Higher purpose, greater impact.

We're creating first-of-its-kind technology that will transform transportation. To do so successfully, we must design for everyone in our cities and on our roads. We believe in building a great place to work through a progressive, global culture that is diverse, inclusive, and ensures people feel valued at every level of the organization. Diversity helps us to see the world differently; it's not only good for our business, it's the right thing to do.

Scale up, not starting up.

Our team is behind some of the industry's largest leaps forward, including the first fully-autonomous cross-country drive in the U.S, the launch of the world's first robotaxi pilot, and operation of the world's longest-standing public robotaxi fleet. We're driven to scale; we're moving towards commercialization of our technology, and we need team members who are ready to embrace change and challenges.

Formed as a joint venture between Hyundai Motor Group and Aptiv, Motional is fundamentally changing how people move through their lives. Headquartered in Boston, Motional has operations in the U.S and Asia. For more information, visit www.Motional.com and follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and YouTube.

Motional AD Inc. is an EOE. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. To comply with Federal Law, we participate in E-Verify. All newly-hired employees are queried through this electronic system established by the DHS and the SSA to verify their identity and employment eligibility.

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