Senior SIL & Simulation Engineer: Autonomous Validation

Gatik; Santa Clara, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Gatik in Santa Clara, CA is seeking a Senior V&V Engineer for SIL & Simulation to scale validation across millions of virtual miles using Gatik Arena. You will build automated verification suites that quantify readiness before every production driverless release, leveraging cloud-based CI/CD and log replay techniques.

Onsite five days a week, you will work with perception, planning, controls, and map execution teams to ensure safety metrics, data fidelity, and robust release dashboards with

Qualifications

• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Robotics, or Data Science.
• 5+ years in software-in-the-loop (SIL) testing or autonomous robotics validation.
• Proficiency in C++ and Python; Linux, Docker, Kubernetes; cloud compute (AWS/GCP).

Responsibilities

• Design and scale automated SIL testing pipelines integrated into cloud-based CI/CD workflows for daily regression and release gate evaluation.
• Build automated workflows to extract disengagements or interesting events from fleet logs and transform them into parametric simulation suites.
• Validate stack performance across perception, planning, controls, and map execution against safety metrics and behavioral assertions.
• Collaborate with simulator platform teams to validate simulator realism, sensor physics models, and vehicle dynamic fidelity against real-world data.
• Develop automated verification dashboards (Grafana, SQL, Python) tracking pass/fail rates, safety violations, and coverage metrics across thousands of daily simulation runs.

Skills

C++

Python

Linux

Docker

Kubernetes

SIL testing

CI pipelines

Autonomy/AV knowledge

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Robotics/Software Eng

Tools

AWS

GCP

Simulation tools

Git

Job description

Gatik in Santa Clara, CA is seeking a Senior V&V Engineer for SIL & Simulation to scale validation across millions of virtual miles using Gatik Arena. You will build automated verification suites that quantify readiness before every production driverless release, leveraging cloud-based CI/CD and log replay techniques.

Onsite five days a week, you will work with perception, planning, controls, and map execution teams to ensure safety metrics, data fidelity, and robust release dashboards with