Autonomous Vehicle Test Manager

The role

You will lead the development, execution, and validation of vehicle control system testing across the AV stack. You will oversee test strategy, infrastructure, and execution to ensure the reliability, safety, and performance of autonomous vehicle systems.

What you will do

• Lead the development and execution of test strategies, procedures, and validation plans.
• Manage and mentor a team of test engineers.
• Ensure traceability between system requirements, test cases, and validation results.
• Oversee the troubleshooting and triaging of field issues related to vehicle control systems.
• Drive the development of automated testing frameworks and modular test scripts.
• Ensure seamless integration and validation of controllers, sensors, and actuators.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to define feature validation strategies and release criteria.
• Improve and scale testing infrastructure including HiL, ViL, and vehicle-level validation environments.
• Lead debugging efforts across hardware and software integration issues.
• Oversee the deployment and validation of software updates.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field
• 5+ years of experience in autonomous vehicle, robotics, or automotive systems testing
• 2+ years of leadership or technical lead experience managing testing efforts or teams
• Experience with automotive communication protocols such as CAN, LIN, and Automotive Ethernet
• Experience developing and managing test cases, validation plans, and traceability systems using tools such as Jama, Confluence, or JIRA
• Experience with ROS or similar robotics frameworks
• Strong programming skills in Python and/or C++
• Experience designing and deploying test infrastructure across bench, HiL, ViL, and vehicle environments
• Strong understanding of testing methodologies, debugging workflows, and system integration validation
• Experience with modern development infrastructure including containers, CPU/GPU architectures, and numerical computing libraries

About the company

Gatik is a leader in autonomous middle-mile logistics providing autonomous transportation-as-a-service solutions. The company focuses on short-haul, B2B logistics for Fortune 500 retailers using proprietary Level 4 autonomous technology.