Senior Autonomy Evaluation & Simulation Engineer

42dot; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 210,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

42dot, a mobility AI company and Hyundai's Global Software Center, is building a new autonomous driving organization to deliver production-ready L4 autonomy across trucks, buses, passenger vehicles and robotaxis. As a founding senior engineer, you will help define how autonomy performance is measured, validated and improved.

You will design scalable evaluation, validation and simulation systems and develop tools for failure analysis and scenario mining, shaping the KPI strategy and technical

Qualifications

• Demonstrated grit, ownership, and a track record of driving difficult technical problems from ambiguity to successful deployment.
• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in autonomy, robotics, simulation, ML infrastructure, validation, analytics, or large-scale software systems.
• Strong software engineering and system design skills.
• Experience leading technical projects from concept to deployment.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Autonomous driving experience (preferred).
• Safety-critical systems experience (preferred).
• Simulation platform experience (preferred).
• Data mining and analytics experience (preferred).
• ML evaluation and benchmarking experience (preferred).
• Statistical modeling experience (preferred).

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve autonomy KPIs and performance metrics.
• Lead development of evaluation and validation infrastructure.
• Design scalable testing and performance analysis methodologies.
• Build simulation-driven validation workflows.
• Develop tools for failure analysis and scenario mining.
• Drive data-informed prioritization of autonomy improvements.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to team growth.

Skills

Autonomy experience

Robotics

ML infrastructure

Validation

Analytics

System design

Leadership

Education

CS/Robotics/EE/Math/Stats

Tools

Simulation platforms

Job description

42dot, a mobility AI company and Hyundai's Global Software Center, is building a new autonomous driving organization to deliver production-ready L4 autonomy across trucks, buses, passenger vehicles and robotaxis. As a founding senior engineer, you will help define how autonomy performance is measured, validated and improved.

You will design scalable evaluation, validation and simulation systems and develop tools for failure analysis and scenario mining, shaping the KPI strategy and technical