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title: 'Senior Test Engineer - Metrics Quality at Avride'
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# Senior Test Engineer - Metrics Quality at Avride

- **Company:** Avride
- **Location:** Austin, TX
- **Posted:** 2026-09-01
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/avride/jobs/4389300009

## Job description

Senior Test Engineer - Metrics Quality

## About the team

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.

## About the role

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.

## What you'll do

- Own the acceptance of new and changed metrics. Before a metric is used to decide whether a change is safe to ship, you decide whether it can be: what it should count, what it should not, and whether the implementation agrees with either.
- Build the case space. For each metric, work out the full set of situations it has to handle — including all the ones where it must stay silent — and keep that set current as the technology and the operating environment change.
- Hunt the silent failures. A metric that returns a surprising number gets noticed. A metric that returns nothing where it should have returned something does not, and that is the class of defect you are here to find.
- Read the implementation against the case space. Not for code quality — for the real situations it does not handle, and will therefore never report.
- Build the test data the job needs. The situations a metric has to handle are rarely all sitting in the data already. Get them by whatever route is cheapest for the case at hand, and keep looking for better routes than the ones we use today.
- Make the case for a fix. Take findings to the engineer who owns the metric with concrete examples and a sense of scale: how often it is wrong, and what decisions that changes.
- Think like the people who read the numbers. A metric that is right on every individual scene can still fail to reveal a degradation across the whole set. Say so before anyone builds a release gate on it.
- Own the release cycle for metrics. Metrics ship on their own cadence. You qualify each release, run and maintain the regression that catches silent changes in what a metric means rather than only in what it returns, and make that cycle faster and cheaper as the number of metrics grows.

## What you'll need

- 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.

A note on how to apply

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Candidates are required to be authorized to work in the U.S. The employer is not offering relocation, sponsorship, and remote work options are not available.

Avride is an equal opportunity employer and committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified applicants and employees with disabilities to ensure they have equal access to employment opportunities. Avride complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), if you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with the application or hiring process, or to perform the essential functions of a job, please email jobs@avride.ai.

## About Avride

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Avride is a developer of autonomous vehicle and delivery robot technology, providing self-driving taxi and last-mile delivery services in partnership with Uber.
- **Entity Type**: Private (subsidiary of Nebius Group)
- **Headquarters**: Austin, Texas, United States (additional offices in Tel Aviv, Israel; Belgrade, Serbia; Seoul, South Korea)
- **Founded**: 2020 (as a spin-off from Yandex’s self-driving car group, which began development in 2017)
- **Founders**: Originated from Yandex’s autonomous driving team; individual founders are not named publicly.

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Vehicular automation, autonomous mobility, and last-mile delivery robotics.
- **Target customers**: B2B (ride-hail platforms like Uber, automotive OEMs like Hyundai), B2C (riders using robotaxis via Uber app), and enterprise (restaurants and retailers using delivery robots through Uber Eats).
- **Mission**: To make roads safer and more sustainable by deploying autonomous technology that never tires, gets distracted, or breaks rules.

## Products & Services
- **Robotaxi Service**: Autonomous taxi fleet (based on retrofitted Hyundai Ioniq 5 vehicles) operating in a nine-square-mile area of downtown Dallas, bookable via the Uber app. As of April 2026, Avride has 200 robotaxis in service.
- **Delivery Robots**: Sidewalk robots that travel at 8 km/h (5 mph), equipped with lidars, cameras, and ultrasonic sensors. Currently delivering Uber Eats orders in Austin, Dallas, and Jersey City. Over 600,000 deliveries completed to date.
- **Autonomous Driver Platform**: A universal driving system (hardware and software) that can be adapted to different vehicle types, including passenger cars and delivery robots, leveraging shared technology for continuous improvement.
- **Proprietary Hardware**: Custom lidars, cameras, and computational hardware designed in-house to enhance performance and redundancy.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company).
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$425M** across two rounds:
  - $50M convertible note (September 2020)
  - $375M venture round (October 2025) — 2 investors.
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Nebius Group (parent company); strategic partners include **Uber** (robotaxi and delivery integration) and **Hyundai** (robotaxi development partnership).
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount of **283 employees** (+75.4% year-over-year).
  - 13,541 LinkedIn followers (+80.3% annual growth).
  - Over 250,000 customers have used services powered by Avride technology.
  - Expanded from initial testing in Austin and Seoul to live commercial operations in Dallas, Jersey City, and South Korea.
  - NHTSA logged 37 accidents involving Avride vehicles (as of March 2026) and opened a safety probe in May 2026 — a sign of regulatory scrutiny that often accompanies scaling autonomous fleets.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proven real‑world deployment**: Operating robotaxis and delivery robots in dense urban environments across the U.S. and South Korea.
- **Unified technology stack**: The same autonomous software and hardware power both cars and delivery robots, enabling cross‑learning and faster iteration.
- **Strong partnership ecosystem**: Exclusive tie‑ups with Uber (rideshare and delivery) and Hyundai (OEM collaboration) provide immediate go‑to‑market channels.
- **In‑house hardware**: Custom sensors and compute units reduce dependency on third‑party suppliers and optimize performance for specific platforms.
- **Safety‑first philosophy**: 360‑degree perception, redundant systems, and thousands of hours of simulation and real‑world testing.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling robotaxi operations**: Expanding the Dallas service area and launching in additional U.S. cities in 2026–2027.
- **Deepening OEM partnerships**: Collaborating with Hyundai on next‑generation robotaxis.
- **Broadening delivery robot coverage**: Entering new markets with Uber Eats, including potential international expansion.
- **Growing the engineering team**: Actively hiring for roles in software, hardware, simulation, and operations (14 open positions as of mid‑2026).

## Why Work Here
- **Cutting‑edge autonomy**: Solve some of the hardest problems in perception, planning, and real‑time control for both cars and robots.
- **Large, experienced team**: Over 200 engineers, many from Yandex’s pioneering autonomous driving group, with deep domain knowledge.
- **Fast‑paced, high‑impact environment**: Work on technology used by hundreds of thousands of real customers.
- **Global presence**: Offices in Austin (HQ), Tel Aviv, Belgrade, and Seoul offer opportunities for international collaboration.
- **Culture of ownership**: Flat structure with small cross‑functional teams; engineers own features end‑to‑end.
- **Work policy**: Not explicitly stated, but roles span on‑site (operations), hybrid, and remote‑friendly positions depending on function.

## Sources
1. [avride.ai](https://www.avride.ai/)
2. [Avride About page](https://www.avride.ai/about)
3. [Avride Careers page](https://www.avride.ai/careers)
4. [Avride LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/avrideai)
5. [Avride Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avride)

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