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Sr. Evaluation, Validation & Simulation Engineer
$210K–$300K
Sunnyvale, United States · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 27, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years in one or more of the listed fields.
- Education
- Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in a listed or related field.
About the job
Build and lead evaluation, validation, and simulation systems that measure and improve autonomous-driving performance and deployment readiness.
What you'll do
- Define autonomy KPIs and performance metrics; lead evaluation and validation infrastructure.
- Develop scalable testing, simulation-driven validation, failure-analysis, and scenario-mining workflows.
- Use data to prioritize autonomy improvements and mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience in autonomy, robotics, simulation, ML infrastructure, validation, analytics, or large-scale software systems.
- Strong software engineering and system design skills.
- Experience leading technical projects from concept to deployment.
Nice to have
- Autonomous driving, safety-critical systems, or simulation platform experience.
- Data mining, analytics, ML evaluation and benchmarking, or statistical modeling experience.
Pay
$210,000 - $300,000 (base salary or total pay not specified)
AI focus
Evaluation and validation of autonomous-driving systems using simulation, performance metrics, failure analysis, and scenario mining; the organization’s autonomy approach centers on end-to-end learning, foundation models, VLA models, and world models.
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