Autonomy Release Engineer II

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Michigan.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of and execute major autonomy releases, incremental performance releases, and hotfix or safety patches.

• Oversee the branching strategy, versioning, and the processes for release cuts.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive release readiness and make go/no-go decisions.

• Design, develop, and maintain internal tools to support:

• Dashboards for release readiness and automated health checks.

• Integration of simulation corpus and regression tracking.

• Collection, reporting, and visualization of release metrics.

• Aggregation of automated validation signals across simulation, Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL), and on-road testing.

• Investigate and resolve intricate issues stemming from software and hardware interactions, behaviors of distributed systems, and discrepancies between on-vehicle and simulation data.

• Acquire a working understanding of the sensor stack, middleware, autonomy stack, compute platforms, networking, and vehicle configurations.

• Implement a stage-gated release framework: Feature Complete → Code Freeze → Validation → Release Candidate.

• Integrate and analyze validation signals, including results from simulation corpus, regression testing, and vehicle assessments.

• Ensure that safety-critical issues are identified, tracked, and appropriately gated.

• Identify avenues for enhancing system robustness, performance, and scalability, and develop tools to measure and monitor these improvements.

• Assist autonomy engineers in designing and integrating their components into the complete May system.

• Contribute to and help maintain the team’s knowledge base, runbooks, and release documentation.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or a related technical field — or equivalent practical experience.

• 2–4 years of relevant experience in software engineering, release engineering, systems engineering, or a related field.

• Proficient in Python, with comfort in Bash scripting and Linux environments.

• Basic to intermediate experience with SQL and/or data querying.

• Familiarity with version control systems (Git) and branching strategies.

• Strong troubleshooting skills and a keen attention to detail.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare package including medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance plans. Domestic partners who have lived together for at least one year are also eligible to participate.

• Availability of Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts for healthcare and dependent care.

• Rich retirement benefits, featuring an immediately vested employer safe harbor match.

• Generous paid parental leave along with a phased return to work policy.

• Flexible vacation policy in addition to paid company holidays.

• Total Wellness Program offering a variety of resources for overall wellbeing.