Equity-Eligible Simulation & Evaluation Engineer

Saildrone; Alameda (CA); On-site; USD 14,000 - 323,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PTO and holidays

Health coverage

Equity grants

401(k)

Professional development reimbursement

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Saildrone in Alameda, CA is seeking a Software Engineer, Simulation & Evaluation to build infrastructure for replaying real-world data, simulating autonomous behavior, measuring performance, and turning failures into repeatable tests.

You will work across simulation, replay, resimulation, scenario generation, evaluation, and automated regression, developing pipelines and integrating with the software lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Strong C++ software engineering skills and production systems experience.
• Experience with simulation, emulation, replay, and related robotics testing infrastructure.
• Strong systems fundamentals including concurrency, performance, reliability, and Linux.
• Experience building infrastructure used by other engineers.
• Strong communication skills to collaborate across teams.

Responsibilities

• Build production-quality simulation, replay, resimulation, and evaluation infrastructure for autonomous systems.
• Discuss pain points with simulation users to understand and improve scenario definitions and maintainability.
• Connect recorded vehicle data, simulated environments, and production autonomy software into repeatable test workflows.
• Develop open-loop and closed-loop testing for autonomous behavior.
• Build quantitative metrics, evaluation pipelines, and regression tests.
• Turn real-world failures and edge cases into repeatable scenarios and automated tests.
• Analyze logs, telemetry, simulation results, and test failures to identify root causes.
• Integrate simulation and evaluation into the software development lifecycle.

Skills

C++

Simulation

Concurrency

Linux

Validation

Infrastructure

Communication

Job description

Saildrone in Alameda, CA is seeking a Software Engineer, Simulation & Evaluation to build infrastructure for replaying real-world data, simulating autonomous behavior, measuring performance, and turning failures into repeatable tests.

You will work across simulation, replay, resimulation, scenario generation, evaluation, and automated regression, developing pipelines and integrating with the software lifecycle.