Senior Test Engineer
The Company
Outrider is a software company that is automating distribution yards with electric, self-driving trucks. Our system eliminates manual tasks that are hazardous and repetitive while it improves safety and efficiency. Outrider’s mission is to drive the rapid adoption of sustainable freight transportation. We are a private company founded in 2018 and backed by NEA, 8VC, Koch Disruptive Technologies, NVIDIA, and other top-tier investors. Our customers are Fortune 200 companies and our autonomous trucks are already running in distribution yards. For more information, visit www.outrider.ai
At Outrider, you'll develop, improve upon, and ship cutting-edge software that drives next-generation freight transportation. Your work will directly contribute to autonomous systems that move millions of tons of freight across shipping & logistics centers, revolutionizing the way goods are transported globally. Over time, your contributions will enhance efficiency, safety, precision, and sustainability across the supply chain. Throughout your time at Outrider, you'll collaborate across teams and functions to build and maintain robust systems that keep the global economy moving.
The Role
As a Senior Test Engineer, you'll be responsible for developing test strategies and plans that enable the verification and validation of the Outrider system, working cross-functionally with other teams to ensure proper test execution, and evaluating test results to confirm conformance to technical and product requirements. This is an individual contributor position which plays an essential role in helping deliver a safety-critical system for logistics automation. The opportunity offers a very talented, highly experienced test engineer the chance to help develop a market-defining enterprise product that combines autonomous vehicle technology with a software-as-a-service (SaaS) business model. The ideal candidate will embrace our goal to drive zero-emission, self-driving vehicle adoption, and help us realize our potential to define, build, and lead a new category of robotic automation for the enterprise.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Develop test strategies and plans for a highly complex autonomous vehicle
- Support the strategic development of testing at all levels, including component, vehicle, simulation, etc.
- Design tests that effectively verify system requirements, analyze and report test results
- Effectively communicate test strategies and capabilities to organizational leadership and customers
- Physically setup and execute system level tests while collaborating with the test operations team
- Identify and develop strategies to accelerate test execution and results reporting
- Create custom tooling or scripts to automate the data analysis process
- Support the requirements generation process
- Embody a "Safety Steward" mindset - hold the company and all co-workers accountable for safety in development, test, and in the finished system, and proactively propose safety improvements
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics Engineering, Electrical, or equivalent
- 2+ years of experience executing system test initiatives in an innovative product development environment
- Experience with system testing methods and data acquisition equipment (preferably vehicle systems)
- Experience creating test cases for system level verification and validation
- Scripting experience with Python for test automation or data analysis
- Extensive experience with the system development life cycle, modern software/hardware/system testing methods, and continuous integration
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Ideal Qualifications
- Knowledge of safety standards and their application to system requirements and testing (especially: ISO 21448/SOTIF)
- Experience testing autonomous vehicles, ADAS features, or robotic systems (ideally self driving in some form)
- High level understanding of machine learning techniques
- High level understanding of perception and localization algorithms used in robotics and AV applications
- IBM ELM / DOORS experience
- JIRA & Confluence
- Familiarity with common database tools and queries (SQL)
- Experience with Software-in-the-Loop (SIL) and Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) simulation and testing methodologies.
Compensation & Benefits
- Salary: $110,000 - $140,000
- Equity: equity package commensurate on experience and skills
- Benefits: Full health benefits
- Flexible Time Off Policy
- Hybrid Work Model
- Home office stipend up to $500 to help you create a comfortable and productive workspace.
- Actual compensation is based on several factors, including but not limited to job-related skills, qualifications, experience, and specific work location due to differences in the cost of labor
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