Staff Software Engineer, Stack AV
Autonomy Performance Evaluation Team Lead
Autonomous systems for the transportation industry
Open for applications
Autonomous systems for the transportation industry
201-500 employees
Open for applications
201-500 employees
Company mission
To revolutionize the transportation industry through the deployment of advanced autonomous systems.
Role
Who you are
- 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++
What the job involves
- The Autonomy Evaluation team is responsible for measuring the performance of the self-driving system
- This team develops evaluation methods, metrics pipelines and tooling that will be used directly to drive development priorities, system architecture and inform operational domain decisions
- The goal is to provide a reliable, highly differentiable signal for the product development team to optimize and use to deliver the best possible product
- The team will work to provide a holistic view of the overall autonomy performance
- Help set the technical direction for the team and 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
- Work closely with each of those teams to help design and develop metrics
- 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
Our take
Driver shortages, decelerating efficiency and broad safety concerns have plagued the US trucking industry for some time now. High operating costs paired with increasingly scrutinized high emissions are leading to concern over the future of the logistics and goods transport market. Stack AV’s autonomous trucking solution aims to lighten the load of these issues, using AI to create smart supply chains and autonomous driving systems.
Its founding team have long been exploring the possibilities of autonomous transport through combined experience with Uber, and Google smart cars and shared founding roles at Argo AI, a similar company that disbanded in 2022 after it failed to become profitable for shareholders. Hopefully, however, the launch of Stack AV will balance the decades of experience as well as hard lessons learnt from the failed predecessor company and will find new ways to make autonomous driving tech a sustainable investment.
With a staggering $1 billion invested in Stack AV by SoftBank in 2023, the company is well-armoured for the time being. Its main competitor is Aurora, which underwent a successful IPO in 2021 but never achieved the high level of early funding that Stack AV did. It’s a promising start then for the Argo AI veterans' new venture.
Kirsty
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Company
Funding (1 round)
Sep 2023
$1bn
SERIES A
Total funding: $1bn
Company values
- SAFETY - Safety is our top priority. Individually and collectively, we embrace our obligation to be responsible and ensure that safety is our company's bedrock
- HUMILITY - We operate with respect for all, and are humble in our achievements and mistakes. We take ownership of our conduct, embrace one another's differences, and uphold an environment of kindness and dignity
- We operate with respect for all, and are humble in our achievements and mistakes. We take ownership of our conduct, embrace one another's differences, and uphold an environment of kindness and dignity
- GRIT - The path to success is rarely straight or smooth. We succeed as a team through disciplined execution, working together to understand the problems at a fundamental level and developing thoughtful and practical solutions
- EXCELLENCE - As a team, we execute and deliver a world class product that brings value to our customers by solving their critical business needs in a safe and efficient manner. Our accomplishments together are greater than any effort individually
- TRANSPARENCY - We are transparent and honest about the facts of our execution and hold ourselves accountable to drive real, continuous improvement through our work and to foster public trust and support of our products and services
- PASSION - We are passionate about our mission, and our culture. Our passion motivates our success and creates an environment where our teams thrive
Company HQ
Downtown, Pittsburgh, PA
Articles
Leadership
Brian Salesky
(CEO)Previously CEO of Argo AI, Director of Hardware Development for self-driving cars at Google, Principal Commercialization Specialist at the National Robotics Engineering Center, and Technical Program Manager at Google.
Peter Rander
(President)Previously President and Co-Founder at Argo AI, Engineering Lead at Uber and Principal Commercialization Specialist at the National Robotics Engineering Center.
Brett Browning
(CTO)Previously CTO at Argo AI, Senior Engineering Manager at Uber Advanced Technologies Center, Co-Founder at Mine Vision Systems and a Senior Systems Scientist at Carnegie Mellon University.
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