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Technical Lead - Autonomy Evaluation
$185K–$242K
San Francisco, CA +1 · Full-time · Posted Sep 25, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 8+ years of relevant experience; 2+ years as a technical lead or engineering manager for an evaluation, validation, or test team.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Statistics, or a related field.
About the job
Leads autonomy evaluation for on-road vehicles, owning release metrics and the log replay, scoring, regression, and reporting platform used to assess candidate software releases.
What you'll do
- Define safety and behavior metrics and release go/no-go criteria; own log replay, scoring, benchmarking, and regression detection.
- Develop dataset mining and test coverage strategies, and ensure evaluation runs are reproducible, traceable, and cost-monitored.
- Set engineering practices, mentor engineers, and participate in hiring.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Statistics, or a related field.
- 2+ years as a technical lead or engineering manager for an evaluation, validation, or test team.
- Ownership of a production evaluation system for autonomous vehicles, robotics, or comparable large-scale ML, with accountability for metrics and release decisions.
- Relevant experience including safety or behavior metrics, large-scale log replay and compute, evaluation datasets and statistics, autonomous systems, robotics middleware and sensor data, Python, and reading/debugging C++.
Pay
$185,000 - $242,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
Python, C++, GPU clusters, camera, LiDAR, radar
AI focus
Evaluation of autonomy software, including perception, localization, and planning, using log replay and scored regression suites.
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