Test Engineer (Autonomous Vehicles)

Test Engineer (Autonomous Vehicles)

Hybrid, Santa Clara, CA

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The Automotive Vehicles team is searching for a creative Test Engineer to help us bring our autonomous vehicle solution out to the world. You will participate in a focused effort to scale and expand the testing frameworks that will help productize ground-breaking solutions redefine the world of transportation and the growing field of self-driving cars. You will work with hardworking and dedicated multi-functional engineering teams across various vehicle subsystems to integrate their work into our AV SW platform, while achieving or exceeding all meaningful automotive standards & guidelines. You'll find the work is exciting, fun, and relevant. We have deadlines, customers, and competition.

What you will be doing:

• Create test strategies and test plans for new features and work on creating robust simulation tests.  
• Identify gaps in tools and request new features to improve the tool quality and user experience.
• Quickly triage, prioritize, and propose resolutions to problems in simulated or on-road testing environments.
• Identify test coverage gaps and work on expanding the coverage and maintaining the tests.
• Root cause areas that most commonly break out builds and work with engineering teams to ensure protection moving forward.
• Provide concrete insights from analysis to improve the quality of new features.
• Create and maintain dashboards that allow others to understand software performance.
• Collaborate with engineering, data science, and release to monitor and enforce robust criteria for measuring and gating releases.
• Represent test tooling and infrastructure needs to prioritize and test early deliveries of new tools.

What we need to see:

• BS or MS in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, or another related field (or equivalent experience)
• 2+ years of experience in system test, automation, and root-cause analysis in fields similar in complexity to autonomous driving
• Substantial experience with Python/C++ and SQL in a software driven environment.
• Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to drive alignment across large organizations

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Experience with scaling the use of Autonomous Vehicles testing frameworks.
• Experience with start-ups and/or in gaming industry.

TCWGlobal is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on age, ethnicity, gender, nationality, religious belief, or sexual orientation.