Autonomy Evaluation & Simulation Engineer

42dot; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 145,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

42dot is building a new autonomous driving organization to deliver production-ready L4 autonomy across trucks, buses, passenger vehicles, and robotaxis. You will work on autonomy evaluation, validation, simulation, KPI development, scenario analysis, and performance measurement.

This is a hands-on engineering role involving software development, data analysis, simulation, and autonomy performance evaluation.

Qualifications

• Grit, ownership, and problem-solving ability.
• Degree in CS/Robotics/EE or related field.
• Strong Python and/or C++ programming skills.
• Strong analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills.
• Experience with large datasets and software systems.

Responsibilities

• Develop autonomy KPIs and performance metrics.
• Build evaluation and validation tools for autonomous driving systems.
• Analyze driving performance and identify failure modes.
• Develop scenario mining and performance analysis workflows.
• Support simulation-based testing and validation.
• Collaborate with ML, software, systems, and safety teams.
• Contribute to technical discussions and engineering decisions.

Skills

Python

C++

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Ownership

Education

Bachelor’s/Master’s/PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or related field

Job description

42dot is building a new autonomous driving organization to deliver production-ready L4 autonomy across trucks, buses, passenger vehicles, and robotaxis. You will work on autonomy evaluation, validation, simulation, KPI development, scenario analysis, and performance measurement.

This is a hands-on engineering role involving software development, data analysis, simulation, and autonomy performance evaluation.