Avride
Senior Test Engineer - Metrics Quality
Austin, Texas · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 1, 2026
- Experience
- 6+ years in software testing or test engineering.
- Visa sponsorship
- Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S.; the employer does not offer sponsorship. Relocation is not offered, and remote work options are unavailable.
About the job
Owns the acceptance and release quality of metrics used to make autonomous-driving software decisions, finding cases where metrics give incorrect or missing results.
What you'll do
- Define and maintain metric test cases, including situations where a metric should remain silent, and build needed test data.
- Review implementations against expected behavior, investigate failures, and present evidence and impact to metric owners.
- Qualify metric releases and maintain regression testing that catches silent changes in metric meaning.
What they ask for
- 6+ years in software testing or test engineering, with depth in data-heavy or analytical systems.
- Strong Python and SQL skills, including analysis scripts and independent reference computations.
- Statistical literacy, including distributions, variance, sample size, and aggregation traps.
- Fluent use of LLMs as a working tool; clear written English.
Nice to have
- Autonomous vehicles, robotics, or evaluation of machine learning systems; ClickHouse or a similar analytical database.
- Experience testing evaluation pipelines or A/B testing infrastructure, designing annotation tasks, or knowledge of US road rules and driver behaviour.
Tools
Python, SQL, LLMs, ClickHouse
AI focus
Use LLMs for analysis, test-data generation, reading unfamiliar code, and cross-checking reasoning.
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