Lead / Senior Autonomous Vehicle Triage Engineer

The Mice Groups, Inc.; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

The Mice Groups, Inc. is seeking a Lead / Senior Autonomous Vehicle Triage Engineer to investigate and resolve issues found during autonomous vehicle testing. You will analyze complex data streams, identify root causes, and route findings to owning teams.

You will establish triage processes, document investigations, and communicate findings clearly to cross-functional engineers and program stakeholders. Strong written and verbal skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Experience investigating and troubleshooting complex software or AV systems.
• Strong ability to analyze logs, sensor data, video and metadata.
• Experience with autonomous vehicles, ADAS, robotics, or simulation.

Responsibilities

• Analyze complex streams of AV data to identify and triage issues.
• Investigate issues found during on-road drives and simulations.
• Correlate on-road issues with simulation scenarios for reproduction and testing.
• Determine if issues originate from simulations, tooling, or AV stack.
• Route issues to appropriate owners with clear evidence.
• Conduct detailed root cause investigations across AV behaviors.
• Ensure consistent issue categorization, severity, prioritization, and documentation.
• Create clear technical documentation of investigations and findings.
• Communicate complex findings to engineers, leads, and stakeholders.
• Help improve triage processes, workflows, and best practices.
• Provide technical guidance to other triage engineers.
• Track issues through resolution to enable reproduction and investigation.

Skills

Log analysis

Root cause analysis

Communication

Triage processes

AV systems experience

Tools

Simulation environments

Job description

Focus: Autonomous Vehicle Triage, Simulation & Root Cause Analysis

About the Role

Our automotive client is seeking a Lead / Senior Autonomous Vehicle Triage Engineer to support the investigation and resolution of issues identified during autonomous vehicle testing.

This role will be responsible for analyzing complex on-road and simulation data, identifying and categorizing issues, determining root causes, and routing findings to the appropriate engineering teams.

The ideal candidate combines strong technical investigation skills with excellent communication and documentation. This person should be able to take ownership of complex issues, communicate findings clearly across engineering teams, and help establish consistent triage processes and standards.

Responsibilities

• Analyze complex streams of autonomous vehicle data including logs, video, sensor data, and metadata to identify and triage issues.
• Investigate issues detected during on-road autonomous vehicle drives and simulation testing.
• Correlate on-road issues with corresponding simulation scenarios to support reproduction, regression testing, and improved test coverage.
• Determine whether issues originate from the simulation environment/tooling or from AV stack behavior.
• Route identified issues to the appropriate engineering or owning team with clear supporting evidence.
• Perform detailed root cause investigation across complex autonomous vehicle behaviors and system interactions.
• Ensure consistent issue categorization, severity assessment, prioritization, and documentation across triage workflows.
• Create clear technical documentation outlining issue behavior, investigation steps, supporting data, findings, and recommended next actions.
• Communicate complex technical findings clearly to engineers, technical leads, program stakeholders, and cross-functional teams.
• Help establish and improve triage processes, documentation standards, investigation workflows, and best practices.
• Provide technical guidance and leadership to other engineers involved in triage and issue investigation.
• Track issues through resolution and ensure engineering teams have the information necessary to reproduce and investigate problems efficiently.

Required Qualifications

• Significant experience investigating and troubleshooting complex software or autonomous vehicle systems.
• Strong experience analyzing logs, sensor data, video, metadata, or other large technical datasets.
• Experience with autonomous vehicles, ADAS, robotics, simulation, or similarly complex systems.
• Strong root cause analysis and technical problem-solving skills.
• Ability to distinguish between tooling, simulation, integration, and software behavior issues.
• Experience working with simulation environments and reproducing real-world issues in simulated scenarios.
• Strong understanding of structured bug triage, issue categorization, prioritization, and escalation.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent technical documentation skills with the ability to clearly document complex investigations and findings.
• Ability to communicate effectively between multiple engineering teams and ensure issues are routed to the correct owners.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to independently drive investigations through completion.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with autonomous vehicle software stacks including perception, planning, controls, or related systems.
• Experience supporting on-road autonomous vehicle testing.
• Experience with simulation-based validation and regression testing.
• Experience creating or improving technical triage processes and operational workflows.
• Previous technical leadership, mentoring, or lead engineering experience.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a senior-level technical investigator who can own complex AV issues from initial detection through triage and engineering handoff. They are highly analytical, organized, and technically credible, but equally strong at communicating and documenting what they find.

This person should be comfortable operating across multiple engineering teams, bringing structure to ambiguous problems, and helping improve how Woven identifies, categorizes, communicates, and resolves autonomous vehicle issues.

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