Remote Staff Software Engineer, Team Lead

Summary

Join our Autonomy Evaluation team at Stack, where you'll help measure the performance of self-driving systems and develop evaluation methods, metrics pipelines, and tooling. As a technical leader, you'll set the direction for the team, work cross-functionally to align stakeholders, and communicate effectively. You'll also stay up-to-date on the latest research literature and incorporate state-of-the-art approaches into the team's roadmap.

Requirements

• Past technical leadership experience; designing, developing and leading multiple projects to completion
• Strong experience in software engineering and algorithm design
• Fluent in Python
• Solid experience with SQL and C++

Responsibilities

• Help set the technical direction for the team
• Work cross-functionally to align stakeholders and customer teams with strong presentation and communication skills
• Stay up to date on the latest research literature for measuring autonomous vehicle performance and incorporate state of the art approaches into the team’s roadmap
• Identify the limitations of existing autonomy performance indicators and develop novel methods to push through local minima
• Understand the inner workings of the various autonomy components (localization, perception, prediction, planning, controls, etc.) and help develop a cohesive strategy for measuring and progressing the self-driving system
• Improve and maintain a cohesive metrics pipeline that works across all autonomy teams
• Work closely with systems engineers to ensure a safe, well tested product is delivered
• Identify bottlenecks and developer pain points and optimize workflows to help create the most efficient autonomy development experience in the industry
• Write software to run offline simulations, compute autonomy performance measures and aggregate/visualize results