Staff Validation Systems Engineer (Autonomous Driving)

Location: Sunnyvale, California, USA; hybrid working model combining in-person collaboration with remote work.

Salary: $276,100–$311,400 annually, plus equity.

Company

hirify.global develops an end-to-end AI platform for autonomous driving, enabling vehicles to learn from real-world experience and support automation from L2+ through L4.

What you will do

• Translate product, systems, and safety requirements into validation strategies, scenarios, metrics, coverage requirements, and acceptance criteria.
• Validate L2+ feature-level driving behaviours and new AI Driver capabilities in simulation and real-world environments.
• Evaluate interactions between automated-driving systems and human drivers.
• Build Python-based evaluation tooling, pipelines, test suites, and scalable data-analysis workflows.
• Analyse results and communicate risks, findings, and release evidence to Product, Safety, Release, and Autonomy Engineering stakeholders.
• Coordinate data, simulation, and evaluation dependencies while providing technical direction as an individual contributor.

Requirements

• Experience validating autonomous-driving, robotics, or closely related intelligent products, particularly learned or adaptive behaviours.
• Hands-on experience building scenarios, metrics, test suites, evaluation pipelines, or data-analysis workflows.
• Professional Python experience and comfort with SQL or similar large-scale analysis tools.
• Experience validating complex systems in simulation, the real world, or both.
• Ability to communicate clearly, document decisions, and own ambiguous problems through evidence and recommendations.
• Must work from or be based near Sunnyvale, California, in a hybrid arrangement.

Nice to have

• Experience with machine learning, computer vision, motion planning, SOTIF, safety validation, or modern AI tooling.
• Direct automotive OEM experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Relocation support and visa sponsorship where applicable.
• Hybrid work with in-person collaboration and access to workshops and labs.
• Market-benchmarked salaries, meaningful equity, and learning and development support.
• Location-dependent health, family, retirement, and wellbeing benefits.
• Ownership in a growing environment where processes and ways of working are still being developed.

Hiring process

• Recruiter screen lasting approximately 25 minutes.
• Hiring manager screen lasting approximately 60 minutes.
• Four-hour technical deep dive, followed by a 60-minute mission and values interview.