Job Description
The Aurora Driver Test and Evaluation Engineer will conduct hands-on testing and analysis of autonomous vehicle systems, ensuring safety, functionality, and integration of hardware and software components in real-world environments to support the deployment of self-driving technology.
Key Responsibilities
- Establish and maintain a technical understanding of the integrated vehicle system, including hardware and software components.
- Design, plan, and execute test scenarios in various operational environments.
- Conduct hands-on testing and observation of autonomous vehicle systems at local and third-party facilities.
- Analyze real-time test observations and recorded data to evaluate system performance.
- Report formal test results, identifying potential product deficiencies to internal stakeholders.
- Identify safety hazards during testing, assess risks, implement mitigations, and communicate residual risks.
- Maintain familiarity with offline test environments to support comprehensive test coverage.
Requirements
- Degree in Engineering, Robotics or a related field
- Minimum 3 years of experience conducting hands-on test and evaluation of a highly-integrated, safety-critical product
- Experience with the right side of the Systems Engineering V - increasing levels of verification and validation with an understanding of product operation and maintenance
- Real-world experience with the application of risk management concepts
- Comfortable working with ambiguity, evolving priorities and challenging problems
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Establishing and maintaining a technical understanding of the fully integrated product System-of-Systems that spans across software and hardware design
- Collecting and/or generating artifacts primarily test or demonstration related artifacts that provide verification evidence for behavioral, functional and safety requirements at higher levels of integration
- Thorough designing and planning of test scenarios that may be executed in a variety of operational environments
- Safe and efficient hands-on test execution and observation in a dynamic vehicle
- Timely analysis of both real-time test observations and recorded data
- Diligent reporting of formal test results to various internal stakeholders, with a focus on characterizing potential product deficiencies
- Identifying safety related hazards associated with elevated risk testing, assessing the initial risk, applying appropriate mitigations, and communicating the residual risk for acceptance or rejection
- Establishing and maintaining familiarity with the increasingly capable suite of offline test environments at Aurora to support comprehensive and complementary test coverage
Benefits & Perks
Base salary range of $126,000 - $181,000 per year
Annual bonus
Equity compensation
Hybrid work environment with in-office presence at least 3 days per week
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