Senior Onboard Vehicle Network Engineer
Motional, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania +3
What you will do
- Design and evolve the onboard vehicle network topology, including physical and logical architectures for both current operational platforms and next-generation autonomous vehicles.
- Define and implement network protocol stacks, communication standards, and messaging layers across compute nodes, sensors, microcontrollers, and actuators.
- Write and maintain high-quality software and tooling for network routing, monitoring, fault detection, diagnostics, and failover handling.
- Partner with hardware, platform, and autonomy software teams to evaluate and select network hardware components.
- Establish network performance budgets, Quality of Service (QoS) policies, network isolation/segmentation strategies, and latency/bandwidth constraints.
- Build telemetry and monitoring tools to observe network health, bandwidth utilization, packet drops, and real-time communication performance.
- Diagnose and resolve complex, system-level networking issues, including loss of communication, packet drops, latency jitter, and hardware controller errors.