Sr. Evaluation, Validation & Simulation Engineer
42dot, Sunnyvale
The role
We're building a new autonomous driving organization to deliver production-ready L4 autonomy across trucks, buses, passenger vehicles, and robotaxis. Our approach is ML-first, centered around end-to-end learning, foundation models, VLA models, and world models. As a founding senior engineer, you'll help define how autonomy performance is measured, validated, and improved across the organization. We believe evaluation is a first-class engineering problem.
The future of autonomy depends not only on building better models, but also on understanding their strengths, weaknesses, and readiness for deployment. We are looking for builders who can create scalable evaluation, validation, and simulation systems that accelerate autonomy development.
What you will do
- Define and evolve autonomy KPIs and performance metrics.
- Lead development of evaluation and validation infrastructure.
- Design scalable testing and performance analysis methodologies.
- Build simulation-driven validation workflows.