Avride
Lead Test Engineer AV Safety Assurance
Austin, Texas · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 17 days ago
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About the role
- The hard part of this is not the collisions.
- Those are obvious, and nobody argues about them.
- Turning that into criteria a whole team applies consistently is the craft of this role.
Responsibilities
- Own the safety gates. What counts as a safety-relevant finding, how it is classified and escalated, the criteria that hold a merge or a release, and how findings are tracked to closure with the recurring ones feeding back into the criteria.
- Own the acceptance criteria. Decide what we measure at each gate from collisions and near misses to right-of-way and hard braking where the thresholds sit, and move them as the technology changes.
- Own the safety report. Define the format the whole QA team writes to: comparable between runs, explicit about what was not covered, and short enough to be read before a decision rather than after it.
- Coach the QA team. Run calibration sessions, review reports, and teach the reasoning behind the criteria, so that safety judgement is something the team applies on its own rather than something you add at review.
Requirements
- 7+ years in testing, verification or validation, including ownership of something that outlived your involvement - a gate, a review, a reporting standard.
- Experience where being wrong had physical consequences.
- You start from what can go wrong and work forward to what would have to be tested to know - and you can work with the output of a hazard analysis rather than needing it translated for you.
- Comfort with residual risk.
- Much of this job is persuading engineers and QA colleagues to change how they work because your argument is good, not because you can require it.
Nice to have
- Whoever takes this role will become fluent in the AV-specific ones
- we do not expect you to arrive that way.
- Autonomous vehicles, ADAS, or another domain that operates without a human fallback.
- Direct contribution to a safety case, a Voluntary Safety Self-Assessment, or a regulatory submission.
- Experience defining on-road testing safety protocols and safety-driver procedures.
- Experience hiring engineers.
- Hands-on SQL and Python for digging into results yourself.
- Avride is an equal opportunity employer and committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified applicants and employees with disabilities to ensure they have equal access to employment opportunities.
Skills
- Be the safety voice in the release decision. Releases are decided by a review that brings together engineering, safety and operations.
Company info
- Avride builds autonomous driving technology for vehicles and delivery robots, and tests it on public roads in Austin.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Candidates are required to be authorized to work in the U.S. The employer is not offering relocation, sponsorship, and remote work options are not available.
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