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Avride
Austin, Texas
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Senior Test Engineer - Metrics Quality
Every decision Avride makes about its autonomous driving software merge or revert, ship or hold, this approach or that one — rests on a metric computed over a set of recorded scenes. Our QA organization is what stands between a metric and a decision made on a metric that was quietly wrong.
You will own the quality of the metrics themselves. Our data scientists build them; you decide whether they can be trusted, before anyone starts making release decisions with them.
This is a specific and underrated craft. A metric can be computed correctly, pass every unit test, and still be the wrong number for the decision it is meant to support. Finding that takes reading the implementation, understanding the product, and knowing what the people who rely on the number are actually trying to learn from it.
The hard half of the job is not checking that a metric fires when it should. It is finding the places where it stays silent and should not have — the failures that produce no number at all, and therefore no complaint, until someone ships on the strength of them.
6+ years in software testing or test engineering, with real depth in data-heavy or analytical systems.
Strong Python and SQL. You write analysis scripts and independent reference computations as a matter of routine, not as an exception.
Statistical literacy. Distributions, variance, sample size, aggregation traps, and the confidence to say "this difference is noise".
Product thinking. You ask what a number is for before you test it. Testing against the letter of a specification is the starting point of this job, not the substance of it.
Conviction that survives a "that's how it works." You will regularly be the one telling a colleague that their metric does not behave the way they expect. That is a normal part of the work here, and it goes well when you bring evidence and see the conversation through rather than letting the finding quietly drop.
Fluent use of LLMs as a working tool — analysis, test-data generation, reading unfamiliar code, and cross-checking your own reasoning.
Clear written English. Your findings are read by people who will act on them.
Nice to have
Autonomous vehicles, robotics, or evaluation of machine learning systems.
ClickHouse or a similar analytical database.
Experience testing evaluation pipelines or A/B testing infrastructure.
Experience designing annotation tasks for human reviewers, and checking that their answers agree.
Knowledge of US road rules and driver behaviour.
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