Autonomous Vehicle Verification & Validation Engineer

Plus 2; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) plan

Catered free lunch

Unlimited snacks and beverages

Job summary

PlusAI in Silicon Valley is seeking a hands-on Test & Simulation Engineer to advance automated testing for autonomous truck software. You will design safety metrics, build robust simulation suites, and contribute to systematic quality assurance across perception, prediction, and planning stacks.

You should have 2+ years in SIL/HIL testing, strong Python, experience with Jenkins or GitHub Actions, and familiarity with CARLA and OpenDRIVE internally.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical/Software Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related technical discipline.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience authoring scenarios and executing test cases in SIL or HIL simulation platforms.
• Strong understanding of AV stack architecture including perception, prediction, planning, and control.

Responsibilities

• Design, formalize, and implement quantitative safety and comfort metrics for AV modules (Perception, Prediction, Motion Planning, and Control).
• Build, execute, and maintain complex simulation test suites to stress-test software releases and benchmark performance.
• Analyze large-scale simulation outputs to distinguish regressions from artifacts and deliver actionable reports.
• Write production-grade Python scripts to automate test execution, data ingestion, and reporting.

Skills

Python

Test automation

Data analysis

Scripting

Problem solving

Education

CS/Robotics/Engineering degree

Tools

CARLA

Grafana

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

SQL

Job description

PlusAI in Silicon Valley is seeking a hands-on Test & Simulation Engineer to advance automated testing for autonomous truck software. You will design safety metrics, build robust simulation suites, and contribute to systematic quality assurance across perception, prediction, and planning stacks.

You should have 2+ years in SIL/HIL testing, strong Python, experience with Jenkins or GitHub Actions, and familiarity with CARLA and OpenDRIVE internally.