• Bachelor or Master in Computer Science or other engineering discipline with sufficient software engineering experience
• 3-5 years experience leading efforts with simulation and other offline tools in the autonomous vehicle or other safety critical space
• Experience in using one or more autonomous vehicle simulation and/or synthetic data generation platforms such as Applied Intuition, Parallel Domains, or even a homegrown solution
• Experience working in a Linux environmentFluent in C++, Python, shell scripting
• Excellent communication skills for leadership and stakeholders

Desirable

• Outrider is an ambitious company that aims to solve autonomous vehicles for yard/warehouse operation
• We are building a special electric truck that can achieve complex maneuvers at huge warehouses, among traffic, people and other complicated settings
• This is not your generic autonomous vehicle product: we have a specific setting, specific hardware and specific customers.We have great financial backing, a clear product in mind and a highly competent engineering team
• Now, we want to expand on critical hires.We are looking for a Principal Engineer, Offline Tools for our Virtual Vehicle Interfaces and Automation team that is able to steer and execute the technical strategy to accelerate development of our autonomous vehicle
• You will use your knowledge of simulation and other offline tools/techniques to enable rapid testing and ad hoc exploration of vehicle behavior prior to deployment to the vehicle
• You will work with a great engineering team that is highly motivated to make this a reality and a leadership that is laser focused on a product
• Be the technical leader for the Virtual Vehicle Interfaces and Automation team
• Help to design/improve our key offline development/testing tools including simulation, synthetic data generation, and offline data-replay
• Lead cross-functional/cross-team efforts to accelerate the development of our autonomous vehicle
• Communicate with leadershipLead make/buy decisions