Software Verification & Validation Engineer @ PlusAI

Plus is a global provider of highly automated driving and fully autonomous driving solutions with headquarters in Silicon Valley, California. Named by Forbes as one of America’s Best Startup Employers and Fast Company as one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies, Plus’s open autonomy technology platform is already powering vehicles in commercial use today. Working with one of the largest companies in the U.S., vehicle manufacturers, and others globally, Plus is helping to make driving safer, more comfortable, and more sustainable. Plus has received a number of industry awards and distinctions for its transformative technology and business momentum from Fast Company, Forbes, Insider, Consumer Electronics Show, AUVSI, and others. If you’re ready to make a huge impact and drive the future of autonomy, Plus is looking for talented individuals to join its fast-growing teams.

This is a unique need with strong software testing skills that can help us evaluate and benchmark the performance of autonomous vehicle technology in a virtual environment. In other words, this role will utilize our in-house simulator to understand the autonomous vehicle characteristics with quantifiable measures. Software verification and validation allows different software modules to be tested thoroughly and systematically, and this position is to develop all of the necessary testing methods and operational pipelines. You’ll have opportunities to study and evaluate multiple modules including perception, motion planning and control. The evaluation results you provided will directly impact our software development process.

Responsibilities:

Design and build simulation test cases along with performance metrics to find module issues and benchmark the performance
Operate different simulation pipeline such as scenario simulation and replay simulation
Manage simulation task life cycle from configuration, execution, reporting to triage
Maintain simulation assets with proper indexing, description and tagging
Documenting periodic simulation reports and analysis
Create high quality scenarios based on user requests using multiple techniques (scenario editor, bag convert, etc.)
Test scenarios in both local environment and cloud-based platform
Properly manage scenarios and benchmarks with corresponding simulation pipeline
Maintain and improve existing scenarios and benchmarks upon requests

Required Skills:

Experience in software development or testing
Experience working with autonomous vehicle
BS or MS in Math/Stats/Engineering or similar field

Salary Range:

$45 - $70 an hour

Our compensations (cash and equity) are determined based on the position, your location, qualifications, and experience.

This is an contracting opportunity paid on an hourly basis on 1099 and comes with the benefit of - catered free lunch, unlimited snacks and beverages only.

Your opportunities joining Plus

Work, learn and grow in a highly future-oriented, innovative and dynamic field.

Wide range of opportunities for personal and professional development.

Catered free lunch, unlimited snacks and beverages.

Highly competitive salary and benefits package, including 401(k) plan.

Compensation Overview

Responsibilities:

Required Skills:

Salary Range:

6 month growth

1 year growth

2 year growth