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Field Test Engineer
$170K–$215K
San Francisco, CA +1 · Full-time · Posted Sep 14, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 5+ years in the stated vehicle testing fields; alternatives include vehicle test engineering, ADAS or AV testing, proving ground operations, or OEM and Tier 1 vehicle test.
About the job
Plans and executes proving-ground and public-road vehicle tests, verifies run validity and safety, and produces auditable test evidence for physical AI systems.
What you'll do
- Plan and run vehicle test scenarios, including procedures, setup, execution, and safety risk assessments.
- Manage instrumentation, ground truth, tolerance bands, test equipment, scheduling, and third-party test services.
- Write defensible test reports and use AI tooling to automate procedure drafting, run-validity checks, and report generation.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of hands-on vehicle test engineering, ADAS or AV testing, proving-ground operations, or OEM and Tier 1 vehicle test.
- Hands-on experience with instrumented targets, driving robots, RTK or GNSS ground truth, timing synchronisation, and data acquisition.
- Experience executing published test procedures, such as Euro NCAP or NHTSA crash-avoidance procedures, or equivalent.
- Data skills in Python or similar; able to reduce acquisition data and produce defensible results.
Pay
$170,000 - $215,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
Python, Euro NCAP, NHTSA, RTK, GNSS
AI focus
Use AI tooling to draft procedures from case specifications, automate run-validity checks against tolerance bands, and draft reports from acquisition data.
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