Vertex Sigma Software
Data Engineer
Foster City, California, United States
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 81 days ago
PythonDatabricksMachine LearningSparkData AnalysisData EngineeringData ScienceData VisualizationStatisticsSystems EngineeringMechanical DesignOrganizational Skills
About the role
- This role will be pivotal in evaluating and improving the behavioral safety and hardware performance of our autonomous vehicles by leveraging fleet and simulation data.
- We analyze fleet data to identify critical safety events, evaluate system behavior, and refine strategies that directly influence how our vehicles behave in complex environments.
- Improve the accuracy and efficiency of existing miners through advanced statistical and ML techniques, ensuring high signal quality.
Responsibilities
- AV Safety Data Engineer (Contract) The Safety Strategy & Operations team is responsible for developing and implementing safety processes from comprehensive safety planning and risk management to operational safety in the field, data analysis, and regulatory reporting, ensuring autonomous vehicles operate safely and meet all federal and state compliance requirements.
- As an AV Safety Data Engineer, you will play a critical role in developing and maintaining robust data infrastructure to surface safety-relevant interactions, assess AV events, and inform autonomy development through data-driven insights.
- You will build scalable pipelines and metrics that ensure we receive strong, reliable signals from data, directly influencing how we assess system readiness and accelerate safe deployment, while also supporting the crucial task of event triage and analysis.
- Develop and maintain miners that identify events of interest from fleet and simulation data.
- Build scalable data pipelines and dashboards to monitor miner performance, signal quality, and key safety metrics.
- Develop and maintain clear triage guidelines and criteria for both onshore and offshore triage teams.
- Support regulatory reporting processes by providing data and analysis as needed.
- Strong data engineering skills, including data wrangling and expertise in building maintainable, scalable, and efficient data pipelines.
- Proven ability to design metrics, run analyses, and translate findings into actionable recommendations.
Requirements
- 6-8 years of experience working with safety-critical systems in AV, Automotive, Transportation Engineering, or a closely related industry.
- Experience with large datasets and distributed data processing frameworks (e.g., Spark, Databricks).
- Familiarity with statistics and probability, and experience with sampling and estimation methodologies.
- Strong understanding of behavioral safety concepts and the ability to interpret vehicle behavior in real-world contexts, along with knowledge of AV requirements, road user behavior, and traffic regulations.
Nice to have
- PhD in Engineering or a related technical field.
- Prior experience with AV safety or system behavior triage.
- Experience with geospatial data analysis.
- Experience with business intelligence tools (e.g., Looker) to support analysis.
- Familiarity with ISO 26262 or other functional safety standards
Benefits
- Bonus Qualifications PhD in Engineering or a related technical field.
- Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision) Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D) Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays) Training & Development Retirement Plan (401k, IRA) Free breakfast and lunch
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