Senior V&V Engineer – Software-in-the-Loop (SIL) & Simulation

Gatik AI • Santa Clara, CA

2d • $160,000 - $260,000 • Onsite

About The Position

At Gatik, simulation is the primary engine for scaling validation across millions of virtual miles. As a Senior V&V Engineer for SIL & Simulation, you will leverage Gatik's state-of-the-art simulation platform (Gatik Arena™) and SIL pipelines to stress-test autonomy software against synthetic scenarios, edge-case variations, and log-replays. You will construct automated verification suites that quantify software readiness before every production driverless release.

Requirements

• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Robotics, or Data Science.
• 5+ years in software-in-the-loop (SIL) testing, virtual simulation validation, or automated software QA for AVs or complex robotics.
• Exceptional proficiency in C++ and Python.
• Deep experience with Linux environments, Docker containerization, Kubernetes, and cloud compute clusters (AWS/GCP).
• Strong working knowledge of simulation tools.
• Experience with continuous integration pipelines.

Nice To Haves

• Experience validating middle-mile or commercial vehicle autonomous planning and control algorithms.
• Background in dynamic scene generation, procedural generation, or synthetic data validation.
• Proficiency in statistical safety verification and coverage-based testing methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Design and scale automated SIL testing pipelines integrated into cloud-based CI/CD workflows for daily regression and release gate evaluation.
• Generate complex, high-fidelity synthetic scenarios (urban/suburban middle-mile routes, edge cases, adverse weather, severe traffic interactions) using scenario definition standards (OpenSCENARIO, ASAM).
• Build automated workflows to extract disengagements or interesting events from fleet logs and transform them into parametric simulation suites.
• Validate stack performance across perception, planning, controls, and map execution against safety metrics and behavioral assertions.
• Collaborate with simulator platform teams to validate simulator realism, sensor physics models, and vehicle dynamic fidelity against real-world data.
• Develop automated verification dashboards (Grafana, SQL, Python) tracking pass/fail rates, safety violations, and coverage metrics across thousands of daily simulation runs.

What This Job Offers

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