AV Safety Data Engineer (Contract) — Build Safer Autonomy

Sigma Software; Foster City (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental &amp

Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary &

Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & PH

Training & Development

Retirement Plan (401k, IRA)

Free breakfast and lunch

Job summary

Sigma Software is seeking an AV Safety Data Engineer (Contract) to lead data-driven safety analysis for autonomous vehicle systems. You will build miners and pipelines, surface safety-relevant interactions, and enable data-informed decisions for system readiness.

You will analyze fleet and simulation data to identify critical events, evaluate vehicle behavior, and support regulatory reporting while collaborating with cross-functional teams across safety and engineering.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in a quantitative or engineering field with relevance to AV safety and data analysis.
• PhD in engineering or related field is a bonus.
• Strong programming skills in Python and SQL with experience in large datasets.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain miners that identify events of interest from fleet and simulation data.
• Improve the accuracy and efficiency of miners through advanced statistical and ML techniques.
• Build scalable data pipelines and dashboards to monitor miner performance, signal quality, and key safety metrics.
• Conduct exploratory data analyses to uncover trends, failure modes, and opportunities to improve vehicle behavior.
• Triage AV events for safety, regulatory, or system-gap concerns and document clear guidelines.

Skills

Python

SQL

Statistics

Data wrangling

Machine learning

Communication

Education

MS in CS/Data Science

PhD in Engineering (bonus)

Tools

Spark

Databricks

Looker

Job description

Sigma Software is seeking an AV Safety Data Engineer (Contract) to lead data-driven safety analysis for autonomous vehicle systems. You will build miners and pipelines, surface safety-relevant interactions, and enable data-informed decisions for system readiness.

You will analyze fleet and simulation data to identify critical events, evaluate vehicle behavior, and support regulatory reporting while collaborating with cross-functional teams across safety and engineering.