Test Engineer - Autonomous Vehicle

Overview

Sustainable Talent is partnering with Nvidia, a global leader transforming computer graphics, PC gaming, and accelerated computing for over 25 years. We are looking for a Test Engineer to support our client's Automotive Vehicles team. This is a W-2 full-time contract based in Santa Clara, CA with remote and hybrid work options. The role offers competitive pay ($70/hr - $80/hr) based on experience, education, location, etc.,

and provides full benefits, PTO, and company culture.

The Automotive Vehicles team is seeking a creative Test Engineer to help bring NVIDIA's autonomous vehicle solution to the world. You will scale and expand testing frameworks to productize solutions in transportation and self-driving cars, collaborating with multi-functional engineering teams across vehicle subsystems to integrate their work into our AV software platform, while meeting NVIDIA and automotive standards and guidelines.

• Create test strategies and test plans for new features and develop robust simulation tests.
• Identify gaps in tools and request new features to improve tool quality and user experience.
• Triages, prioritizes, and proposes resolutions to problems in simulated or on-road testing environments.
• Identify test coverage gaps, expand coverage, and maintain tests.
• Root-cause analysis of failures in builds and collaborate with engineering to implement protections.
• Provide concrete insights from analysis to improve the quality of new features.
• Create and maintain dashboards to communicate software performance.
• Collaborate with engineering, data science, and release teams to monitor and enforce robust criteria for measuring and gating releases.
• Represent test tooling and infrastructure needs to prioritize and test early deliveries of new tools.

• B.S. or M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• 2+ years of experience in system test, automation, and root-cause analysis in fields comparable in complexity to autonomous driving.
• Substantial experience with Python/C++ and SQL in a software-driven environment.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to drive alignment across large organizations.

• Experience scaling autonomous vehicle testing frameworks
• Experience with startups and/or the gaming industry

Sustainable Talent is an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer (M/F/Disability/Veteran).

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