Sr. Evaluation, Validation & Simulation Engineer

The role

You will define and build autonomy performance frameworks, including KPI strategy, evaluation architecture, and simulation strategy. You will create scalable evaluation, validation, and simulation systems to 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.
• Develop tools for failure analysis and scenario mining.
• Drive data-informed prioritization of autonomy improvements.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to team growth.

Required qualifications

• Demonstrated grit, ownership, and a track record of driving difficult technical problems from ambiguity to successful deployment.
• Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in autonomy, robotics, simulation, ML infrastructure, validation, analytics, or large-scale software systems.
• Strong software engineering and system design skills.
• Experience leading technical projects from concept to deployment.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.

Nice to have

• Autonomous driving experience.
• Safety-critical systems experience.
• Simulation platform experience.
• Data mining and analytics experience.
• ML evaluation and benchmarking experience.
• Statistical modeling experience.

Before you apply

• Application Review - Coding Test - 1st interview - 2nd interview - Offer Negotiation - Hiring
• All documents must be submitted in PDF format and under 30MB in size.

About the company

42dot is a mobility AI company and the Global Software Center of Hyundai Motor Group. They develop software-defined vehicle technologies and aim to build a self-managing urban transportation operating system.