CareerPlan

Systems Engineer, World Model Evaluation - Autonomous Vehicles

US, CA, Santa ClaraFull-time$184k–$288k2026-10-26 → 2026-11-09

Core

Develop requirements, metrics, and evaluations to measure the accuracy of autonomous vehicle world models, connecting perception and map-fusion performance to driving behavior and safety.

Role type

Senior Systems Engineer (Autonomous Vehicle Evaluation)

Builds

Evaluation datasets, reproducible analysis pipelines, automated triage tools, and dashboards for release readiness.

Domain

Autonomous Vehicles / AI Safety / Systems Engineering

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Systems engineering, quantitative systems analysis, verification and validation, statistical analysis, experiment design, Python, SQL, distributed data-processing frameworks, object storage, SQL-based data platforms, C++

Preferred skills

Perception/map-fusion evaluation, data science, orchestration frameworks (Temporal), VLM/LLM validation, automotive functional safety, automated testing

Technologies

Python, SQL, C++, Temporal, VLMs, LLMs

Responsibilities

Translate driving-feature needs and safety analysis into world-model requirements and error budgets; investigate real-world failure modes and develop metrics/scenarios; build and validate evaluators connecting world-model errors to vehicle behavior; partner with data teams to define evaluation datasets and labeling guidelines; develop reproducible analysis and automated triage using on-road data and simulation; turn results into decisions through evaluation tools and dashboards.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC