Software Quality Triage Specialist (Autonomous Vehicles)

Location: Mountain View, CA, United States; onsite office role.

Salary: $120,000–$135,000 USD base annually for the SF/Silicon Valley location. Total compensation also includes equity, bonuses, and benefits.

Company

Develops Physical AI and autonomous driving technology for driverless long-haul trucking, industrial trucking, and defense applications.

What you will do

• Learn and assess the performance of an autonomous driving system and its autonomous trucks.
• Perform deep root cause analysis of system behaviors with high quality and minimal oversight.
• Identify and categorize failure modes, file bugs, and track issues through resolution.
• Generate overall performance reports and collaborate with operations and engineering teams to improve workflows.
• Perform quality assurance on 2D/3D labels used to train and improve algorithms.

Requirements

• 3+ years of triage and deep root cause analysis experience in the robotics or autonomous vehicle industry.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• Experience investigating beyond high-level bucketing and analyzing vehicle logs across perception, planning, localization, controls, and other system-level behaviors.
• Very solid understanding of autonomous vehicle sensors, including cameras, lidar, and radar, and how sensor performance affects perception and planning.
• Experience using simulation in triage to evaluate safety-related behaviors.
• Ability to investigate complex issues and drive them to root cause, with strong analytical and critical-thinking skills.
• Ability to quickly learn, adapt, and apply new concepts, tools, and workflows.
• Curiosity and diligence in investigating unexpected behaviors and understanding why they occur.
• Strong communication skills, including clear, concise, and thorough technical documentation.
• Passion for autonomous technology and improving safety and efficiency through triage and simulation.

Culture & Benefits

• Safe, collaborative, and diverse working environment with equal opportunity employment.
• Medical, dental, vision, legal, identity protection, disability, life, accident, critical illness, and related insurance benefits.
• Flexible PTO, 10 paid holidays, and parental leave.
• Dog-friendly office with catered lunch, stocked kitchen, and free EV charging.
• Fidelity 401(k), commuter benefits, FSA, dependent care FSA, HSA, wellbeing programs, and incentive programs including referral and patent bonuses.

Hiring process

• Initial application screening is assisted by a third-party AI tool.
• Final hiring decisions are made by the human recruitment team; candidates may request a separate review.
• Some roles may require additional review of residence, U.S. person status, citizenship status, or export-control eligibility.