Test Engineer, Collision Avoidance Coverage

This role follows a hybrid work schedule and reports to a Lead Systems Test Engineer.

You will:

• Own defining, requesting, tracking, and accepting collision avoidance scenarios that are critical to baselining and improving the Waymo Driver
• Work with your internal team to understand what coverage exists, and as Waymo expands, what new coverage is needed
• Work across multiple partner teams to ensure requirements are clearly understood, resources are properly allocated, timelines are met, and resulting outputs quality is high
• Help define and understand the tradeoffs between various next-generation scenario creation technologies
• Build a framework/tooling to ensure traceability across all steps of the pipeline and decrease friction

You have:

• 3+ years of experience in tech, automotive, systems/test engineering, or other relevant fields where you have demonstrated a strong positive impact
• A proven track record of working in dynamic environments while delivering excellent work on complex topics
• A results-oriented mindset and a love of working across multiple teams, wrangling complex and ambiguous requirements, and delivering quality outputs
• Basic coding abilities for building, editing, and maintaining data analytics tools and pipelines (Python and/or SQL)
• Solid intuition about vehicle dynamics, physics/kinematics, and mathematics fundamentals
• Stellar organization and collaboration skills

We prefer:

• Large datasets / databases organization and maintenance
• An Autonomous Vehicle background
• Background in Simulation
• Vehicle test track or similar real-world experience