Senior Software Engineer, Collision Avoidance Testing
Mountain View, CA$160.4k - $291.2kfull-timePosted 4mo ago
About the role
Senior Software Engineer role focused on evaluating and improving collision avoidance testing for autonomous vehicles, coordinating with onboard autonomy, evaluation infrastructure, data science, operations, and simulation teams to identify gaps, design tests, analyze results, and report residual risk for safety case and leadership.
Responsibilities
- Using human benchmarks from naturalistic data, develop statistical models that drive strategic decisions as a function of test volume, system performance, and confidence level.
- Identify and design realistic scenarios to drive test coverage of collision avoidance scenarios and collision detection scenarios using replay simulations of logs and synthetic simulation of third-party accident reconstructions.
- Develop validation strategies to test Automated Emergency Braking functions using simulation and structured testing.
- Identify gaps in simulation and public roads testing and design structured test scenarios to address these gaps and by leveraging appropriate standards from NHTSA or NCAP.
- Support the building of and using models to quantify risk in scenarios with non-zero probability of collision.
- Author test and residual risk reports, and make strategic recommendations based on the results for improving simulation or test realism and autonomy architecture.
- Support the safety case by identifying, documenting, and communicating collision avoidance and simulation or test realism claims.
- Communicate effectively across onboard and offboard SWE, Test Operations, and Leadership to present risks and requirements effectively.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree, Master’s Degree, or Doctoral Degree in Computer Science, Math, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, Physics, or related field.
- Strong algorithmic problem solving skills and coding (preferably Python or C++) experience to implement scalable solutions.
- Experience with designing simulation-based evaluation suites and scenarios for testing autonomous vehicles using well-defined metrics to score good behavior.
- Experience developing collision-type metrics, data analytics, evaluation tooling, or CICD test pipelines to quantify robot performance in test environments.
- Experience with probability modeling.
- Highly collaborative in nature with strong abilities to think and communicate analytically and effectively, both verbal and written.
- Self-starter and fast learner - you should be passionate about picking up new skills and approaching unstructured problems from first principles while prioritizing and managing workload to meet critical project deadlines.
- 5+ years of technical work experience in a relevant area, of which 3+ years should be in robotics SW.
- Working knowledge of and ability to apply systems engineering concepts of requirements, verification and validation.
Skills
Required:Algorithmic problem solvingSimulation-based evaluationCollision metricsProbability modeling
Benefits
- Annual performance bonus
- equity
- competitive benefits package
Last updated Aug 5, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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