Principal Engineer Team Lead, Behavior Safety & Metrics
Core
Lead evaluation initiatives for autonomous vehicle prediction and planning models, defining metrics, data strategies, and tools to ensure safe, comfortable, and efficient system behavior.
Role type
Principal Engineer Team Lead (Evaluation & Metrics)
Builds
Quantitative evaluation frameworks, performance metrics, data mining strategies, and scalable tooling for autonomous driving systems.
Domain
Autonomous driving, robotics, machine learning, safety engineering
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Probability/statistics, data science, Python, SQL, data analysis, performance target definition, hazard/safety analysis (STPA, HAZOP, FMEA), cross-functional leadership
Preferred skills
ML methods for performance quantification, Prediction/Planning for AV, public AV datasets (Waymo, nuScenes), large-scale data pipelines, industry standards (SOTIF, ISO 26262, UL4600)
Technologies
Python, SQL, Waymo Open Dataset, nuScenes
Responsibilities
Define evaluation strategy for prediction and planning models; design advanced metrics for system behavior; develop data mining strategies and assess dataset coverage; build tooling and pipelines; collaborate with Safety, Infrastructure, and Operations teams.
Seniority
Principal, hands-on IC with leadership