Remote Senior Autonomy Evaluation Engineer

Ladders; United States; Remote; USD 93,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Collaborative work environment

Access to cutting-edge autonomy tools

Career growth and technical leadership

Remote-friendly culture

Job summary

Ladders is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Autonomy Evaluation to help build and advance software and analytical systems measuring autonomy performance across simulation and real-world driving data.

The role spans metrics definition, method development, and dashboards, collaborating with teams in autonomous systems, ML, and data analysis to accelerate development and validate readiness for deployment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in robotics or autonomous systems software, data analysis, ML evaluation, or autonomy analytics.
• 3+ years evaluating dynamic systems using numerical or ML-based approaches.
• Strong proficiency in production-quality Python development, including testing and code review.
• Familiarity with data analysis libraries such as Pandas, NumPy, and SciPy.
• Comfortable working with C++ codebases for inspection and debugging.
• Curiosity to investigate and resolve data anomalies systematically.
• Demonstrated technical leadership with influence on architectural decisions.

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement metrics for evaluating autonomous driving software.
• Design algorithms to summarize and cluster metrics from simulation and road test data.
• Propose statistical and ML methods for performance quantification and pattern detection.
• Develop methods to evaluate ML components in the autonomy stack.
• Build evaluation dashboards and interactive reports for cross-functional stakeholders.
• Leverage vision-language and large language models to improve scenario prioritization and validation efforts.
• Maintain high technical standards through strong coding practices and thorough code reviews.

Skills

Python development

C++ codebases

Data analysis

Pandas

NumPy

SciPy

Code reviews

Technical leadership

Tools

Pandas

NumPy

SciPy

Job description

Ladders is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Autonomy Evaluation to help build and advance software and analytical systems measuring autonomy performance across simulation and real-world driving data.

The role spans metrics definition, method development, and dashboards, collaborating with teams in autonomous systems, ML, and data analysis to accelerate development and validate readiness for deployment.