Evaluation, Validation & Simulation Engineer

42dot • San Francisco, CA

9d • $145,000 - $210,000

About The Position

42dot is building a new autonomous driving organization focused on delivering production-ready Level 4 autonomy across trucks, buses, passenger vehicles, and robotaxis. Its ML-first approach centers on end-to-end learning, foundation models, vision-language-action models, and world models.

As a founding member of the autonomy organization, the engineer will help establish how autonomy performance is measured, validated, and improved. This hands-on role covers autonomy evaluation, validation, simulation, KPI development, scenario analysis, and performance measurement. The work will inform engineering priorities and product decisions across the organization. Founding team members will help shape evaluation methodology, KPI strategy, validation and simulation strategies, engineering culture, and the technical roadmap.

Requirements

• Demonstrated grit, ownership, and problem-solving ability; ability to take initiative, thrive in ambiguity, tackle difficult problems, and deliver results.
• Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field.
• Strong Python and/or C++ programming skills.
• Strong analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills.
• Experience working with large datasets and software systems.

Nice To Haves

• Autonomous driving experience.
• Robotics experience.
• Simulation experience.
• Data analytics or ML evaluation experience.
• Statistical analysis experience.
• Large-scale data processing experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop autonomy KPIs and performance metrics.
• Build evaluation and validation tools for autonomous driving systems.
• Analyze driving performance and identify failure modes.
• Develop scenario mining and performance analysis workflows.
• Support simulation-based testing and validation.
• Collaborate closely with ML, software, systems, and safety teams.
• Contribute to technical discussions and engineering decisions.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level