Torc Robotics
Staff, Software Engineer - Simulation Vehicle Modeling
Remote - US, Ann Arbor, MI · Staff+ · Full-time
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About the role
- This team serves as the critical technical interface between simulation/modeling and autonomy consumers.
- By ensuring model fidelity, coverage, and usability, the team plays a vital role in evaluating and advancing autonomous driving software.
- Ultimately, we provide the framework and tooling that serves Autonomy, Safety, and Release with shared artifacts, common metrics, and deterministic reproducibility.
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve the technical architecture for scalable vehicle modeling and simulation - extensible across vehicle types, sensor platforms, and fleet variability as Torc's autonomy program grows.
- Develop and own high-fidelity truck and vehicle dynamics models (longitudinal, lateral, and transient behavior) spanning nominal, off-nominal, and failure-mode simulation domains.
- Design, develop, and maintain high-fidelity simulation platforms used to validate autonomous driving software in closed-loop evaluation pipelines at scale.
- Partner with autonomy engineering teams to capture and implement vehicle model requirements supporting planning, controls, and system-level V&V activities.
- Own model capability communication, known limitations, and release notes to enable effective autonomy validation across consuming teams.
- Perform root cause analysis on complex issues surfaced in simulation runs and hardware-in-the-loop testing.
- Drive test plan design for data acquisition and telemetry supporting field data collection and vehicle model refinement.
- Communicate technical direction, design decisions, and blockers clearly at stand-ups, design reviews, and cross-org architecture discussions.
- Build and maintain collaborative relationships with OEM partners and simulation tool vendors to evaluate, integrate, and co-develop simulation capabilities.
- Working knowledge of AV autonomy stack architecture - planning, controls, and system integration - to collaborate effectively with autonomy engineering teams and ensure vehicle models meet V&V requirements.
Requirements
- Design and scale robustness testing frameworks - including controller/planner interaction testing - to stress-test autonomy software at the fidelity and throughput required for large-scale V&V and RL training.
- Deep proficiency in C++ (primary), Python for tooling, ROS/ROS2, CMake, and Linux.
- Experience with unit, integration, and regression testing, automated validation pipelines, and simulation-based performance benchmarking at scale.
- Experience with high-fidelity truck & trailer or heavy-vehicle models.
Nice to have
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field plus 10+ years of relevant experience
- or Master's Degree in the above fields plus 7+ years
- or PhD plus 3+ years.
Skills
- Meet the Team
Compensation
- A competitive compensation package that includes a bonus component and stock options
Benefits
- Define and drive the statistical validation metrics that directly support Safety Case claims, ensuring model fidelity and coverage meet the bar required for driver-out certification.
Company info
- At Torc, we have always believed that autonomous vehicle technology will transform how we travel, move freight, and do business.
- A leader in autonomous driving since 2007, Torc has spent over a decade commercializing our solutions with experienced partners.
- Now a part of the Daimler family, we are focused solely on developing software for automated trucks to transform how the world moves freight.
- Join us and catapult your career with the company that helped pioneer autonomous technology, and the first AV software company with the vision to partner directly with a truck manufacturer.
- At Torc, our simulation teams are building the foundation for AV 3.0 driver-out development and certification.
- We support massive-scale, parallel execution for scaled verification and validation (V&V) and high-throughput reinforcement learning (RL) training.
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