Staff Validation Systems Engineer (Automotive AI)

Location: London, United Kingdom; hybrid working with regular time in the office and workshops

Company

hirify.global develops the hirify.global AI Driver, an end-to-end learned autonomous driving system.

What you will do

• Lead validation strategy development and execution across simulated and physical test modalities for ADAS functions.
• Define general-purpose metrics for on-road and simulated driving behavior.
• Establish test coverage requirements and build comprehensive test suites.
• Develop acceptance criteria with Product, Safety, and AV Engineering stakeholders.
• Analyze validation results and report findings to Release and Autonomy Engineering teams.
• Coordinate dependencies across data, simulation, evaluation, product, architecture, and autonomy teams to enable scalable automated validation.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience evaluating and validating complex engineered systems through simulated scenario development, real-world testing, or both.
• Experience with simulated and physical testing environments for autonomous systems and with analyzing and reporting validation results.
• Proficiency in Python for implementing metrics and working with evaluation codebases.
• Experience in the automotive or autonomous vehicle industry.
• Strong analytical, communication, documentation, and evidence-based decision-making skills.
• Degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Aerospace, or a related field.

Nice to have

• Background in machine learning, computer vision, motion planning, or data science.
• Experience with SOTIF, safety validation, and learned or adaptive behaviors.
• Experience with modern AI tools, agentic workflows, or SQL for large-dataset analysis.
• Deep understanding of driving behavior and driving-performance measurement.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working policy combining office and workshop time in London with work from home.
• Regular collaboration across product, safety, architecture, data, simulation, and autonomy disciplines.
• Work focused on advancing autonomous driving technology and bringing the hirify.global AI Driver to customers globally.

Hiring process

• Candidate CV information is used to pre-fill as much of the application form as possible.