Engineering Manager, Autonomy Systems Verification and Validation

Directly manage and grow a team of 5+ verification and validation (V&V) systems engineers, providing mentorship and career guidance.

Develop, own, and execute the end-to-end V&V strategy for the autonomous vehicle’s (AV's) behavioral competencies, from simulation to on-road validation -- with a focus on corner cases for both perception and behavior/decision-making.

Drive the definition and implementation of performance metrics, data extractors, and statistical evaluation methods to form objective conclusions about AV performance.

Establish effective collaborations with multiple cross-functional teams like perception, planning, controls, and safety to streamline the development and creation of tests across our validation pipelines.

Lead the planning, execution, and timeline delivery of vehicle tests, including cross-functional coordination with vehicle engineering, operations, and software teams.

Deliver robust validation evidence to support increasingly complex operations and provide clear, data-driven feedback to development teams.

Maintain traceability between requirements, behavioral test cases, and results to support our safety case.

Propose and implement process and methodology improvements to accelerate test iteration.