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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 hands-on testing fields.
About the job
Plans and executes vehicle and ADAS/AV tests at proving grounds and on public roads, producing auditable evidence about test outcomes and safety.
What you'll do
- Design and run scenario tests, including setup, instrumentation, safety controls, validity criteria, and run rejection.
- Manage ground-truth data, equipment calibration, proving-ground scheduling, and third-party testing relationships.
- Write defensible test reports and use AI tools to automate procedure drafting, 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/Tier 1 vehicle testing.
- Hands-on experience with instrumented targets, driving robots, RTK or GNSS ground truth, timing synchronization, and data acquisition.
- Experience executing published procedures such as Euro NCAP or NHTSA crash-avoidance procedures, or equivalent.
- Data analysis ability in Python or similar, plus sound test-validity and safety judgment.
Pay
$170,000 - $215,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
Python, RTK, GNSS, Euro NCAP, NHTSA
AI focus
Use AI tooling to draft procedures from case specifications, automate run-validity checks against tolerance bands, and draft reports from acquisition data; human judgment remains necessary for marginal runs.
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