Autonomous Vehicle Test Engineer

Gatik, the leader in autonomous middle‑mile logistics, is revolutionizing the B2B supply chain with its autonomous transportation‑as‑a‑service (ATaaS) solution and prioritizing safe, consistent deliveries while streamlining freight movement by reducing congestion. The company focuses on short‑haul, B2B logistics for Fortune 500 retailers and in 2021 launched the world’s first fully driverless commercial transportation service with Walmart. Gatik’s Class 3–7 autonomous trucks are commercially deployed across major markets, including Texas, Arkansas, and Ontario, Canada, driving innovation in freight transportation.

The company’s proprietary Level 4 autonomous technology, Gatik Carrier™, is custom‑built to transport freight safely and efficiently between pick‑up and drop‑off locations on the middle mile. With robust capabilities in both highway and urban environments, Gatik Carrier™ serves as an all‑encompassing solution that integrates advanced software and hardware powering the fleet, facilitating effortless integration into customers’ logistics operations.

As an Autonomous Vehicle Test Engineer at Gatik, you’ll lead the development and validation of vehicle control systems from conception to production. This role will be onsite in our Denison, TX Office.

• Develop and execute test procedures and test plans to thoroughly validate the performance of existing and new vehicle systems across the evolving operational domain, including maintaining traceability between requirements, test cases, and results.
• Troubleshoot, triage, and provide diagnostic support for field issues related to the vehicle control system.
• Develop modular test scripts to automate test data collection and analysis, including improving and maintaining test infrastructure to ensure automated CI tests run quickly and reliably.
• Ensure seamless integration of controllers and actuators with the vehicle and AV.
• Create test scripts to automate manual testing processes and streamline overall design and performance verification testing, including issuing detailed JIRA tickets against existing test frameworks and tools to address bugs and pain points.
• Work with others on the engineering and testing teams to define new feature development and to establish release metrics and gating.
• Deliver impactful solutions that improve Gatik’s ability to predict on‑road performance and raise the bar on test coverage, test effectiveness, and safety.
• Integrate and deploy software updates at a system and subsystem (component) level with a goal to drive a culture of safety first across all aspects of the role.
• Responsible for writing test cases and executing systems integration tests at different abstraction levels of the system such as Hardware in Loop (HiL), Vehicle in Loop (ViL).
• Build, implement, and run test benches with proprietary or industry‑standard tools to evaluate, document and identify problems with hardware‑software integration.
• Lead and drive debugging of the HW/SW issues to closure. Identify and work with key cross‑functional partners to root cause and provide resolution.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Robotics or a related field
• 2+ years of experience using automotive communication protocols such as CAN, LIN and Automotive Ethernet
• Experience in writing test cases and developing traceability using Jama, Confluence, or JIRA.
• Experience with ROS or similar common robotics tools and libraries.
• Experience with coding in Python/C++.
• Experience with designing and deploying test setups on the bench, HiL, and/or the vehicle
• Experience with testing methodologies, writing test plans, creating test cases, and debugging.
• Experience using software project management software, including CPU and GPU architectures, containers, and numerical libraries

Founded in 2017 by experts in autonomous vehicle technology, Gatik has rapidly expanded its presence to Mountain View, Dallas‑Fort Worth, Arkansas, and Toronto. As the first and only company to achieve fully driverless middle‑mile commercial deliveries, Gatik holds a unique and defensible position in the AV industry, with a clear trajectory…