Gatik · 3 weeks ago
Autonomous Vehicle Test Engineer
Gatik is a leader in autonomous middle-mile logistics, focusing on safe and efficient freight transportation solutions. As an Autonomous Vehicle Test Engineer, you will lead the development and validation of vehicle control systems, ensuring high performance and safety through rigorous testing and integration processes.
Responsibilities
Develop and execute test procedures and test plans to thoroughly validate the performance of existing and new vehicle systems across the evolving operational domain, including maintaining traceability between requirements, test cases, and results
Troubleshoot, triage, and provide diagnostic support for field issues related to the vehicle control system
Develop modular test scripts to automate test data collection and analysis, including improving and maintaining test infrastructure to ensure automated CI tests run quickly and reliably
Ensure seamless integration of controllers and actuators with the vehicle and AV
Create test scripts to automate manual testing processes and streamline overall design and performance verification testing, including issuing detailed JIRA tickets against existing test frameworks and tools to address bugs and pain points
Work with others on the engineering and testing teams to define new feature development and to establish release metrics and gating
Deliver impactful solutions that improve Gatik’s ability to predict on-road performance and raise the bar on test coverage, test effectiveness, and safety
Integrate and deploy software updates at a system and subsystem (component) level with a goal to drive a culture of safety first across all aspects of the role
Responsible for writing test cases and executing systems integration tests at different abstraction levels of the system such as Hardware in Loop (HiL), Vehicle in Loop (ViL)
Build, implement, and run test benches with proprietary or industry-standard tools to evaluate, document and identify problems with hardware-software integration
Lead and drive debugging of the HW/SW issues to closure. Identify and work with key cross-functional partners to root cause and provide resolution
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Robotics or in a related degree
2+ years of experience using automotive communication protocols such as CAN, LIN and Automotive Ethernet
Experience in writing test cases and developing traceability using Jama, Confluence, or JIRA
Experience with ROS or similar common robotics tools and libraries
Experience with coding in Python/C++
Experience with designing and deploying test setups on the bench, HiL, and/or the vehicle
Experience with testing methodologies, writing test plans, creating test cases, and debugging
Experience using software project management software, including CPU and GPU architectures, containers, and numerical libraries
Company
Gatik
Gatik is developing technology for autonomous light & medium duty trucks for B2B short-haul logistics.
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$152.86MKey Investors
Nippon Express USAITOCHU CorporationIsuzu
2024-08-21Corporate Round
2024-06-10Series Unknown
2024-05-14Corporate Round· $30M
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