Simulation, Infrastructure & Toolchain Engineer

Simulation, Infrastructure & Toolchain Engineer

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Base pay range: $85,315.00/yr - $/yr.

Location:

Plymouth, Michigan or Sunnyvale, California, with a planned relocation to Sunnyvale, California office.

Designs, develops, and maintains simulation tool chains, CI/CD infrastructure, and data triage workflows for Autonomous Driving (AD) software verification and validation. Builds scalable simulation environments, automating workflows, and managing large datasets from both simulation and on‑road tests to ensure high‑quality development and deployment of AD systems. Requires expertise in software development, Dev Ops practices, simulation frameworks, and data engineering, with a passion for enabling robust autonomous driving solutions.

Works closely with global Isuzu teams and AD suppliers to ensure safe and reliable deployment of autonomous functions. Depending on experience level, may work under close supervision or independently.

• Work with industry‑leading partners and institutions on cutting‑edge AI for future mobility and logistics solutions.
• Gain hands‑on experience in simulation, validation, and deployment of production‑driven AI systems.
• Exposure to global collaboration across U.S. and Japan technical teams.
• Opportunity to make a meaningful contribution to the future of transportation and mobility autonomy.

• 50% Maintains and enhances simulation frameworks used for autonomous driving (AD) software verification and validation following established procedures and senior staff direction.
• 15% Supports design and implementation of CI/CD pipelines for automated build, test, and deployment of AD software. Learns best practices in Dev Ops.
• 15% Performs data triage for simulation and on‑road tests, including filtering, labeling, and preparing datasets for ML model training and system evaluation.
• 15% Collaborates with internal and external teams on infrastructure and simulation requirements. Supports virtual and real‑world testing.
• 5% Participates in review of emerging technologies for simulation, Dev Ops, and data management.
• Miscellaneous job‑related duties as assigned.

• 50% Maintains and implements simulation frameworks for AD software verification and validation.
• 15% Reviews, designs, and implements CI/CD pipelines for automated build, test, and deployment of AD software.
• 15% Performs data triage for simulation and on‑road tests, including filtering, labeling, and preparing datasets for ML model training and system evaluation.
• 15% Collaborates with internal and external teams on infrastructure and simulation requirements. Supports virtual and real‑world testing.
• 5% Researches and evaluates emerging technologies for simulation, Dev Ops, and data management.
• Miscellaneous job‑related duties as assigned.

• 40% Researches state‑of‑the‑art technologies for autonomous driving software development and deployment process and leads implementation of necessary tool chains.
• 20% Researches and leads implementation of data close loop for autonomous driving and machine learning system through development and deployment.
• 15% Performs autonomous driving software verification and validation before release.
• 15% Collaborates with internal and external teams on infrastructure and simulation requirements. Supports virtual and real‑world testing.
• 10% Maintains CI/CD, Dev Ops and data management pipelines.
• Miscellaneous job‑related duties as assigned.

• Reports to:
  
  Supervisor, Model Based Development - Advanced Engineering.

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, Data Science or related field. PhD preferred.
• Minimum 1 year of autonomous driving or robotics, programming, or Dev Ops.
• Previous experience with data operation and triage.
• Academic focus or coursework in autonomous driving, robotic systems, machine learning infra and pipeline, AI development and deployment (ML/DL/RL/VLM/LLM) preferred.
• Previous experience with vehicle…