Operations & Software Test Engineer

Company: Confidential
Location: Ann Arbor
Posted on: April 8, 2021

Job Description:

Operations & Software Test Engineer
In this position you will be responsible for validation of software functionality in the development of autonomous vehicle technologies.Demonstrated knowledge and experience with software validation processes is required and much of your time will be spent performing testing in an autonomous vehicle. This role involves designing, executing, and tracking the results of processes to verify the safety and performance of autonomous vehicle systems. You'd be part of a dedicated team focused on executing applied research and bringing those ideas to market.
Job responsibilities may encompass:

• Designing and conducting experiments to validate vehicle system and subsystem performance including sensing, perception, decision making, and path following
• Developing plans to collect data for training and testing machine learning algorithms and coordinating data collection, curation, and analysis
• Creating and maintaining test documentation including test requirements, procedures, plans, and reports
• Analyzing and reviewing test data to ensure proper system operation by utilizing real-time and post-processing data analysis tools (e.g. Python, Pandas, NumPy, etc.)
• Establishing guidelines to promote vehicle testing in a safe, effective, and efficient manner
• Deploying automated configuration management for self-driving vehicle software development
• Implement structure for version control of application and infrastructure code
• Maintain continuous integration to enable iteration and forward momentum
• Engage team of software, machine learning, and hardware engineers to implement best practices for maintaining high code quality and quick, low risk releases
• Developing software toolsets for regression testing and collaboration
• Partner with IT departments and external IT service providers to accomplish deployment
• Utilization of modern software development practices including test-driven development and code reviews in order to develop high quality, maintainable and reusable code.
• Development of software toolsets for performing metric evaluations of system modules
  Minimum Qualifications :
  
  • A Bachelor's Degree inPhysics, Mathematics, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related fields is required.
  • 2+ years experience designing and executing validation tests of hardware and/or software on some type of autonomous vehicle
  • 6 months + experience using compiled languages such as C/C++/Java or similar
    
    Preferred Qualifications :
    • A Ph.D. or M.S. in Physics, Mathematics, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related fields is preferred.
    • Ideal candidates will possess a strong interdisciplinary background in science and engineering with solid programming skills.
    • Demonstrated experience working in a team-based project from inception to finish across multiple disciplines, e.g., hardware design and implementation, data acquisition and analysis, mathematical modeling, algorithm development, application implementation, etc.
    • Experience in a development or production system test environment
    • Experience in automotive or aerospace system testing and integration
    • Experience in software development, integration, testing, and validation
    • Experience using data analysis tools (e.g. Matlab, Python) to visualize and understand experiment data
    • Proven experience in problem solving, troubleshooting, and quick thinking
    • Proficiency with a distributed version control system (e.g. git, mercurial, bazaar, ---)
    • Proficiency in contemporary UNIX/Linux software environments using Make, gcc, bash, etc.
    • Experience running applications within a Docker container environment
    • Experience with data science tools and techniques
      
      

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