Autonomous Vehicle Test Engineer

Job Description

Gatik, the leader in autonomous middle-mile logistics, is revolutionizing B2B supply chain with its autonomous transportation-as-a-service (ATaaS) solution and prioritizing safe, consistent deliveries while streamlining freight movement by reducing congestion.

The company focuses on short-haul, B2B logistics for Fortune 500 retailers and in 2021 launched the world's first fully driverless commercial transportation service with Walmart.

Gatik's Class 3-7 autonomous trucks are commercially deployed across major markets, including Texas, Arkansas, and Ontario, Canada, driving innovation in freight transportation.

About the Role

As an Autonomous Vehicle Test Engineer at Gatik, you'll lead the development and validation of vehicle control systems from conception to production within the cab of the truck.

This role will be onsite and on the road from our Fort Worth Office.

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.
• 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.
• Work with others on the engineering and testing teams to define new feature development and 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 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 HW/SW issues to closure. Identify and work with key cross-functional partners to root cause and provide resolution.

Requirements:

• 1-5 years of hands-on engineering experience.
• Interesting projects: Formula SAE, Design Build Fly, Spaceport America Cup, Robotics, autonomy, etc.
• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Robotics, or a related degree.
• 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.

About Gatik:

Founded in 2017 by experts in autonomous vehicle technology, Gatik has rapidly expanded its presence to Mountain View, Dallas-Fort Worth, Arkansas, and Toronto.

As the first and only company to achieve fully driverless middle-mile commercial deliveries, Gatik holds a unique and defensible position in the AV industry, with a clear trajectory toward sustainable growth and profitability.

We have delivered complete, proprietary AV technology - an integration of software and hardware - to enable earlier successes for our clients in constrained Level 4 autonomy.

By choosing the middle mile – with defined point-to-point delivery, we have simplified some of the more complex AV challenges, enabling us to achieve full autonomy ahead of competitors.

Given extensive knowledge of Gatik's well-defined, fixed route ODDs and hybrid architecture, we are able to hyper-optimize our models with exponentially less data, establish gate-keeping mechanisms to maintain explainability, and ensure continued safety of the system for unmanned operations.

Culture:

At Gatik, we connect people of extraordinary talent and experience to an opportunity to create a more resilient supply chain and contribute to our environment's sustainability.

We are diverse in our backgrounds and perspectives yet united by a bold vision and shared commitment to our values.

Our culture emphasizes the importance of collaboration, respect, and agility.

Join our team and help shape the future of logistics!