Quality Test Engineer, II

About The Company At Torc, we have always believed that autonomous vehicle technology will transform how we travel, move freight, and do business.

About The Company At Torc, we have always believed that autonomous vehicle technology will transform how we travel, move freight, and do business. A leader in autonomous driving since 2007, Torc has spent over a decade commercializing our solutions with experienced partners. Now a part of the Daimler family, we are focused solely on developing software for automated trucks to transform how the world moves freight.

Join us and catapult your career with the company that helped pioneer autonomous technology, and the first AV software company with the vision to partner directly with a truck manufacturer.

Meet the Team The Test Engineer supports the testing of our autonomous vehicles in addition to software development and engineering activities supporting the delivery of software tools, automation, and CI/CD pipelines within our Autonomous Eco System. Responsibilities include generating and executing vehicle test plans, analyzing the resulting test data, designing strategic test progression, and supporting full-lifecycle development of proprietary software solutions for the testing and delivery of our Autonomous Eco System.

This position is instrumental in improving the robustness and safety of our self-driving technology, and works closely with product, design, and engineering teams to ensure robust, safety-focused testing and delivery.

• Generate and execute test plans to uncover the limitations of our systems, collecting relevant data to drive improvements.
• Perform root cause analysis of identified defects and performance issues, and provide recommended solutions.
• Design and deploy supplementary instrumentation and infrastructure required to capture data as defined by the test plans.
• Analyze test data and generate reports to communicate performance issues and capability improvements over time.
• Maintain a verification and validation report showing current performance of the vehicle-level system against system requirements.
• Work closely with software component teams to generate quantifiable performance metrics and implement vehicle-level tests for individual system components.
• Provide regular reports to software component and system design teams, consolidating test event results and generating detailed defect reports with supporting logs.
• Perform on-road testing in autonomous vehicles as a detailed observer/annotator.
• Travel domestically or internationally to support on-road vehicle testing, up to 25%.

• Execute full software development lifecycle activities using a mixture of C++ and scripting languages in a Linux development environment, using Lean-Agile methodologies.
• Complete software assignments including design, implementation, unit testing, vehicle testing, and deployed software maintenance, following quality, build, deploy, test, safety, and process requirements and guidelines.
• Assist in root cause analysis of issues found in testing and process automation steps.
• Support the team in identifying daily assignments and reporting progress at daily stand-ups.
• Support software and system-level test plans and verification strategies for ongoing feature development and bug fixes.
• Design and implement systems responsible for data acquisition and analysis from remote vehicles in the field.
• Ensure software updates do not regress software performance by utilizing simulation software and scenarios.
• Bring a genuine passion for the autonomy technology product area.

• Master's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, or another relevant technical field, OR
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, or another relevant technical field with 4+ years of technically relevant work experience

• Working-level experience in transportation, engineering, safety, or related…