Senior Systems Engineer - Autonomous Vehicle Validation

Jobtailor; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor seeks an experienced Systems Validation Lead to steer behavior validation from requirements through release. You will define decomposition, metrics, and traceability, and lead cross-functional reviews for autonomous vehicles and safety-critical validation.

You will connect safety claims with compliance requirements, hazard analyses, and robust simulation-based evaluation at scale, guiding data pipelines and validation tooling across teams.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in a related field required.
• 8+ years in systems engineering, autonomous vehicles, robotics, or safety-critical validation.
• Proven record evaluating autonomous vehicles for commercial fleets or launches.
• Strong fundamentals in architecture, decomposition, requirements strategy, and traceability.
• Experience defining or leading large-scale simulation evaluation.
• Production-quality Python programming and rapid experimentation.

Responsibilities

• Set systems engineering approach for behavior validation from requirements to release and monitoring.
• Define behavior decomposition, metrics, acceptance criteria, coverage, and traceability.
• Lead validation strategy for major capabilities and cross-cutting behaviors.
• Connect safety claims with compliance, hazard analysis, requirements, and test evidence.
• Direct behavior evaluation and simulation at scale across synthetic tests and road data.
• Guide scenario sourcing, data quality, and reproducibility; lead cross-functional reviews.
• Advise on validation tools, data pipelines, and repeatable analysis products.
• Translate complex results into clear, actionable recommendations.
• Collaborate across behavior, software, simulation, safety, legal, product, and operations teams.

Skills

Python Programming

Communication

Stakeholder Management

Technical Leadership

Systems Engineering

Validation Lifecycle Design

Education

Master's degree in systems engineering or related field

Tools

Validation Tools

Data Pipelines

Simulation Workflows

Job description

Jobtailor seeks an experienced Systems Validation Lead to steer behavior validation from requirements through release. You will define decomposition, metrics, and traceability, and lead cross-functional reviews for autonomous vehicles and safety-critical validation.

You will connect safety claims with compliance requirements, hazard analyses, and robust simulation-based evaluation at scale, guiding data pipelines and validation tooling across teams.