Staff Software Engineer Autonomy

What You'll Do: - Define the strategy and architecture for metrics and analyses to evaluate autonomous driving software performance across the autonomy stack. - Lead cross-functional efforts with autonomy, systems engineering, simulation, and data teams to embed evaluation into development workflows and release decisions. - Invent and drive new statistical and ML methods, and ML introspection techniques, to quantify performance, detect regressions, and reveal patterns of system behavior at scale. - Own and refine key AV evaluation metrics and KPIs used for readiness and safety decisions; synthesize and present results and tradeoffs to stakeholders; make insights readily available to partner teams through interactive dashboards. Your Skills and Abilities (Required Qualifications): - 7+ years applied experience with robotics or autonomous systems software, spanning multiple subsystems from perception through planning and control of the vehicle. - 3+ years leading evaluation of complex dynamic systems using numerical and ML approaches on large-scale time series data. - Proficiency developing Python in production team environments; strong ability to work in large C++ autonomy codebases. - Proven cross-team technical leadership, including defining strategies adopted by multiple teams and influencing system and architecture decisions. - PhD, Masters, or Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering, Machine Learning, or a related field. What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications): - Experience in autonomous driving or high-stakes field robotics; designing, running, and interpreting large-scale simulation and field experiments. - Deep familiarity with statistical modeling, experimental design, and hypothesis testing for autonomy evaluation; command of Pandas, NumPy, SciPy, and visualization libraries. - Proficiency in C++ and SQL, and experience shaping logging, data schemas, and evaluation pipelines for large-scale autonomy testing. - Experience working with ROS or other IPC, robotics stack logging, and with large-scale experiment databases, including designing or scaling evaluation platforms. - Prior development with computational geometry, linear algebra, PyTorch, and machine learning. - Background in modeling agent interaction and owning or designing release gating criteria and processes for autonomy systems.