Avride
Lead Test Engineer AV Safety Assurance
Austin, Texas · Full-time · Posted Sep 4, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years in testing, verification, or validation.
- Visa sponsorship
- Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S. The employer does not offer relocation or sponsorship; remote work is not available.
About the job
Owns safety testing gates, acceptance criteria, reporting, and team calibration so autonomous-vehicle release decisions are supported by consistent, evidence-based findings.
What you'll do
- Define and maintain safety gates, acceptance criteria, and tracking of findings through closure.
- Set the QA team’s safety report format, coach consistent safety judgments, and present test evidence and unknowns in release reviews.
- Connect hazard analyses to scenario coverage and test results, and translate the safety framework into testable requirements with safety, development, and analytics teams.
What they ask for
- 7+ years in testing, verification, or validation, including ownership of a gate, review, or reporting standard.
- Experience in a field where errors have physical consequences, with evidence-based claims and clear communication of limits and unknowns.
- Hazard-driven thinking and ability to work directly with hazard-analysis output.
- Fluent use of LLMs as a working tool; excellent written English.
Nice to have
- Working knowledge of relevant safety standards or equivalents, such as ISO 21448 (SOTIF), ISO/TS 5083, UL 4600, ISO 26262, and ISO 34501–34505.
- Experience with autonomous vehicles or other no-human-fallback domains, safety cases or regulatory submissions, on-road safety protocols, hiring, or hands-on SQL and Python.
Tools
LLMs, STPA, FMEA, HAZOP, ISO 21448 (SOTIF), ISO/TS 5083, SQL, Python
AI focus
Use LLMs to quickly review standards, logs, and results, and draft role-related documents.
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