Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Motional is a driverless technology company making autonomous vehicles a safe, reliable, and accessible reality. They are seeking a Senior Engineer to join the AV Behavior Design and Evaluation Team, responsible for designing and assessing AV behavior and building robust evaluation systems. The role involves proposing metrics, analyzing data, and delivering insights to enhance AV capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Propose behavioral expectations on AV capabilities
- Support standardization of metrics used in performance evaluation for AV Capabilities to ensure consistency
- Effectively utilize existing metrics and propose the need for new metrics to evaluate AV performance in large scale simulation testing
- Propose soft/hard targets for metrics using statistical methods and back them up with driving data
- Propose and implement ideas to analyze simulation, resimulation and public road testing results for stakeholders in Systems, Autonomy, Safety etc
- Deliver strategic insights and recommendations on projects regarding scenario-based testing
- Build meaningful visualizations and templates for the team to utilize
- Focus on automating result analysis processes and gaps, removing manual processes where applicable
- Support the development, execution, and analyses of test strategy for features validation
- Communicate test results to development teams and management and facilitate resolving of technical issues
Skills
- Bachelor's degree and 2 years of experience in Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science OR equivalent experience in relevant industry
- Strong understanding of Autonomous Vehicle architecture and functions of key subsystems such as perception, planning, prediction etc
- Experience with analyzing simulation and real world data for robotic systems, preferably autonomous vehicles
- Fluency in SQL or similar languages
- Fluency in data visualization techniques
- Experience in building python based projects for data analysis and insights
- Excellent interpersonal skills to build relationships with other teams
- Excellent communication skills; effective in communicating complex concepts and driving resolutions
- Self-starter who is motivated to set and achieve goals and takes initiative to drive ambiguous tasks/projects to completion
- Masters degree in relevant field
- Experience using simulation tools
- Experience in evaluating Autonomous Driving Behavior using large scale data
- Familiarity with AV Behavior evaluation standards and best practices
Benefits
- Candidates for certain positions are eligible to participate in Motional’s benefits program.
- Motional’s benefits include but are not limited to medical, dental, vision, 401k with a company match, health saving accounts, life insurance, pet insurance, and more.
- 401k with a company match
- Health saving accounts
- Life insurance
- Pet insurance
- Medical, dental, vision
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