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# Senior Release Engineer

- **Company:** Motional LLC
- **Location:** Las Vegas, NV, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $149,000.0 - $198,500.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Airflow, Amazon Web Services, Software Bug Management, Cloud Computing, Continuous Integration, Python (Programming Language), Software Engineering, Git, Gitlab-ci, Data Analytics, Build Process, Jenkins
- **Published:** September 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=59563148fca1363e

## About the Role

* Engineering Foundation: BS or MS in Engineering or equivalent knowledge and work experience.
 * Technical Proficiency: Strong proficiency in Git, Python; advanced experience with CI/CD infrastructure (e.g., GitLab CI, Jenkins).
 * Domain Knowledge: Experience in the autonomous driving sector, robotics, or complex software release environments.
 * Collaborative Problem-Solver: Demonstrated ability to work within a highly technical team, translate complex requirements into actionable code, and communicate effectively with cross-functional stakeholders.
 * Operational Mindset: A focus on building maintainable, "production-ready" systems and a desire to improve engineering workflows rather than just patching issues.

Bonus Points:

 * Experience with Cloud Simulation scaling and AWS application environments.
 * Experience with Apache Airflow or similar workflow orchestration tools.
 * Experience with simulation-based validation frameworks (e.g., Applied Intuition).

## Description

* Release Gating & Validation: Collaborate with the Release team to implement and enforce "shift-left" quality gates, ensuring that only stable, well-validated code reaches release branches.
 * Cross-Functional Support: Partner with Autonomy, System Readiness & Performance, and Project Manager teams to streamline the integration of patches and bug fixes, acting as the primary point of contact for release-related build inquiries.
 * Branching & Governance: Assist in executing the organization's release strategy (e.g., maintaining clean branching models) to ensure release isolation and stability.
 * Data-Driven Optimization: Contribute to the visibility of release metrics, identifying bottlenecks in the build process and proposing data-backed solutions to improve release team and developer velocity.
 * Automation & Tooling: Write and maintain automation scripts to enforce release quality, minimize manual overhead, and manage build compatibility across diverse autonomy stacks.