Autonomous Safety Verification Systems Engineer

Remote; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation and equity

Health and Wellness benefits (Medical,

Unlimited Vacation

Flexible hours and Work from Home

Snacks and catered meals when in the 0

Job summary

Waabi, a leader in Physical AI for autonomous transportation, seeks a systems engineer to build evidence behind safety verifications. You will define test scenarios, manage release‑pipeline checks, and ensure quality across test artifacts, collaborating with motion planning, simulation, and safety teams.

You will translate behavior requirements into criteria, assess test coverage, and refine test strategies to prevent defects and accelerate reliable releases in a fast‑growing AV environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in an engineering field.
• Experience verifying safety-critical systems in autonomous or safety-critical domains.
• Proven ability to design test cases from requirements and assess coverage.
• Applied statistics: sample size, confidence, and interpretation of results.
• Proficiency in Python and navigating large codebases.

Responsibilities

• Design and document the scenario and test sets that establish on‑road behavior performance, from minimum to comprehensive.
• Own what enters the release pipeline: define and run the scenario validity checks, and approve or refuse test sets before release.
• Maintain continuous quality feedback of the artifacts test sets rely on—scenarios, taggers, graders and the taxonomy behind them.
• Translate behavior requirements into testable criteria in collaboration with Behavior Requirements teams.
• Investigate behavior deficiencies, identify exposure, and reintroduce them to the pipeline as test escapes.
• Coordinate across motion planning, simulation, evaluation, operations, and safety teams to align verification cadence.

Skills

Test case design

Python

Statistics

Safety-critical systems

Autonomous vehicles

Requirements verification

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field

Master’s degree in engineering or related field

Job description

Waabi, a leader in Physical AI for autonomous transportation, seeks a systems engineer to build evidence behind safety verifications. You will define test scenarios, manage release‑pipeline checks, and ensure quality across test artifacts, collaborating with motion planning, simulation, and safety teams.

You will translate behavior requirements into criteria, assess test coverage, and refine test strategies to prevent defects and accelerate reliable releases in a fast‑growing AV environment.