Principal Engineer, Behavior Safety & Metrics — Autonomous Driving

Jobgether; United States; On-site; USD 240,000 - 330,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) matching

Health Savings Account

Life insurance

Pet insurance

Equity

Bonuses possible

Job summary

Jobgether in the United States seeks a senior evaluation scientist to shape how autonomous driving systems are evaluated across prediction and planning. You will define evaluation strategies, develop quantitative frameworks, and connect model performance to real-world vehicle behavior.

Working with Safety, Infrastructure, Operations, Legal, and engineering teams, you will guide data-driven improvements throughout the lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field with 7+ years of experience, or advanced degree with 5+ years.
• Strong foundation in probability, statistics, and data science.
• Experience defining performance targets for safety and comfort.
• Proven ability to solve complex, cross-disciplinary engineering problems.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical authority for evaluation across Behavior teams and connect model development with system performance.
• Define and lead evaluation strategies for prediction and planning models, including open-loop and simulation-based assessments.
• Design and implement advanced performance metrics to measure impact on end-to-end system behavior.
• Incorporate counterfactual reasoning and reaction-time analysis into evaluation frameworks.
• Develop data mining strategies and assess dataset coverage across prediction and planning.
• Build scalable evaluation tools, pipelines, and processes with ML engineers and roboticists.
• Establish performance targets and acceptance criteria across safety, comfort, and driving assertiveness.
• Collaborate with Safety, Infrastructure, Operations, Legal, and other teams to guide design improvements.
• Ensure system changes deliver measurable improvements and meet launch criteria for safe autonomous driving.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data analysis

Statistics

Machine learning

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Hazard analysis methods

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's or PhD with relevant experience

Tools

Waymo Open Dataset

nuScenes

Job description

Jobgether in the United States seeks a senior evaluation scientist to shape how autonomous driving systems are evaluated across prediction and planning. You will define evaluation strategies, develop quantitative frameworks, and connect model performance to real-world vehicle behavior.

Working with Safety, Infrastructure, Operations, Legal, and engineering teams, you will guide data-driven improvements throughout the lifecycle.