Senior Systems Engineer, Metrics & Simulation

Stack AV • Pittsburgh, PA

4h

About The Position

The Systems & Safety team is responsible for all activities ensuring the development of safe, reliable, and performant self-driving systems for autonomous trucks that will perform long distance transportation of goods, including actions such as safety case development, autonomy behavior definition, Operational Design Domain (ODD) definition and expansion, functional safety, product security, and more. We are mission-driven to develop, test, and field a product quickly that solves our customers’ needs, while also conducting that development to the highest degree of engineering rigor necessary for autonomous vehicles to operate safely on public roadways. As systems and safety engineers, we need your expertise to help us effectively test our AV system by developing simulation strategies, creating simulations, developing metrics, analyzing results of simulations for improvements, and more.
This role in particular will focus on the autonomy system of the autonomous truck, with work scope including simulation design and development, metric design and development, test result analysis, and AV Behavior definition. This role will require highly cross-functional work in particular with software teams developing autonomy software, simulation teams developing tools for simulation, and triage teams evaluating real-world behavior. A background or exposure to autonomous vehicle autonomy technologies and components is appreciated. Experience applying ISO 21448, Safety of the intended functionality (SOTIF) is appreciated but not required.

Requirements

• Experience in creating simulations and working within a simulation test environment.
• Experience in software engineering and algorithm design.
• Fluent in Python; Experience with C++ and SQL a plus.
• Experience conducting root cause analysis to determine underlying causes of issues and faults.
• Demonstrated experience working across highly cross-functional teams in a fast-paced environment while maintaining a high degree of engineering rigor.
• Exposure to, and familiarity with, software engineering across the full lifecycle, including software requirements development, software design, implementation, and unit & integration testing.
• Work products are developed in detail-oriented and quantitative approaches.
• Clear, concise communication of technical topics.
• Working knowledge of safety standards applicable to on-road autonomy such as ISO-26262, ISO 21448 (SOTIF), UL 4600, or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Develop and guide simulation scenario test case development for evaluating system performance and behavior.
• Develop AV behavior metrics to monitor performance of the system.
• Identify and implement methodologies for discovery of new/unique behavior scenarios from test data.
• Analyze simulation test results and identify solutions to increase test coverage, increase scenario coverage, and determine correct AV behaviors.
• Develop test plans and strategies.
• Contribute to development of the safety case for the complete system and help ensure it is comprehensive and complete.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed