Arthur Safira
Senior Director, Systems Engineering at Motional
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolArthur Safira is a systems-driven technology leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling safety-critical autonomy systems, currently serving as Senior Director of Systems Engineering at Motional in Boston. He has progressed through technical and leadership roles shaping vehicle readiness, systems integration, and test rigor across perception, prediction, and planning domains. His background blends hands-on hardware and software engineering—from designing lidar and improving vehicle performance at Waymo to developing nanoscale instruments during a PhD at Harvard—giving him rare cross-domain fluency. Arthur is comfortable stepping into gaps across manufacturing, simulation, and implementation while holding teams to a high technical and safety bar. He pairs deep research training with pragmatic delivery, routinely translating complex physics and data analysis into deployable automotive capabilities. Colleagues describe him as mission-oriented and unafraid of difficult technical interviews or the messy edges of product development.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma Academy for the Advancement of Science and Technology, High School Diploma Academy for the Advancement of Science and Technology at Bergen County AcademiesDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Physics at Harvard UniversityBachelor's degree Physics, Bachelor's degree Physics at Princeton University
English, Polish
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Github Skills (4)
python7
pycharm6
particle3
panda3d2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
asafira/CS207FinalProject
Dec 2014 - Dec 2014
Contributions:8 commits in 4 days
LISE-B26/b26_toolkit
Jul 2016 - Oct 2018
pylabcontrol add-on for experiments in LISE B26
Contributions:114 commits, 36 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
add-onpython
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