Autonomy Release Engineer, May Mobility

• Strong analytical and systems-thinking skills — comfortable reasoning about complex, multi-component systems
• Proficient in Python for scripting, automation, and tool development
• Familiarity with data pipelines, metrics collection, and visualization tools (e.g. Plotly Dash, Tableau, AWS QuickSight, or similar)
• Ability to read and interpret logs, telemetry, and system health signals to identify root cause
• Comfort working across hardware and software boundaries
• Strong written and verbal communication — able to translate technical findings into clear release decisions
• Ability to work cross-functionally without direct authority
• Eagerness to continuously learn new systems, tools, and workflows
• Qualifications and Experience
• 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 discipline
• Proficiency in Python; comfort with 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 instincts and attention to detail
• Physical Requirements:
• Standard office working conditions which includes but is not limited to:
• Prolonged sitting
• Prolonged standing
• Prolonged computer use
• Travel required? - No: 0%

Desirable

• This role sits at the intersection of:
• Release execution & CI/CD
• Autonomy system integration & debugging
• Validation, simulation, and safety gating
• You will ensure not only that software is releasable, but that it is safe, well-understood, and performs reliably in real-world conditions
• S an Autonomous Release Engineer, you will contribute to solving challenging and complex problems facing vehicle autonomy — building the tools, instrumentation, and processes that make releases faster, safer, and more confident
• Autonomous Release Engineers are responsible for the integrated functioning of the autonomy system
• Release Engineers interact with sensor hardware, middleware, autonomy software stack, networking, health monitoring, compute platforms, and electronic systems
• A key part of this role is building and improving the tooling and automation that supports release validation, readiness assessment, and system health monitoring
• You will be a go-to person for understanding how new features fit in, how the system might fail, and how to keep the system working reliably
• This is a hands-on, systems-oriented role requiring strong technical judgment and a builder's mindset
• You are expected to actively challenge release readiness when necessary and act as a safeguard for system quality — not just execute process
• You will play a key role in scaling release cadence without compromising safety, partnering closely with autonomy, infrastructure, engineering, validation, and operations teams
• This position reports to the Sr Manager, Autonomy Technical Release
• Release ownership and execution across major autonomy releases, incremental/performance releases, and hotfix/safety patches
• Manage branching strategy, versioning, and release cut processes
• Drive release readiness and go/no-go decisions in partnership with cross-functional teams
• Design, build, and maintain internal tooling to support:
• Release readiness dashboards and automated health checks
• Simulation corpus integration and regression tracking
• Release metrics collection, reporting, and visualization
• Automated validation signal aggregation across sim, HIL, and on-road testing
• Investigate and resolve complex issues arising from software/hardware interactions, distributed systems behavior, and on-vehicle vs. simulation discrepancies
• Develop working understanding of sensor stack, middleware, autonomy stack, compute platforms, networking, and vehicle configurations
• Enforce stage-gated release framework: Feature Complete → Code Freeze → Validation → Release Candidate
• Integrate and interpret validation signals including simulation corpus results, regression testing, and vehicle testing
• Ensure safety-critical issues are identified, tracked, and gated appropriately
• Identify opportunities to improve system robustness, performance, and scalability — and build tooling to measure and track improvements
• Support autonomy engineers in designing and integrating their components with the full May system
• Contribute to and help maintain the team's knowledge base, runbooks, and release documentation