Hiring: Technical Lead, Simulation Company: Atoms Location: San Francisco, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-12 11:33:35 Employment Type: Full-time Target Skills & Keywords : Aerospace Engineering, C++, Python About the job Experience: •8+ years of relevant experience •2+ years as a technical lead or engineering manager, setting technical direction and driving consensus across engineers and stakeholders. Required Skills: •Platform architecture. Own the design of the simulation platform, including simulation clock and step control, run identity, determinism and reproducibility, batch execution, and log storage and indexing. Results must be reproducible and traceable to a software version. •Log replay. Own the pipeline that converts recorded logs into replayable test cases, open-loop scoring of perception and localization against ground truth, and closed-loop replay. •Scenario execution and coverage. Own the scenario schema and library, coverage definitions, and the structure of commit, nightly, regression, and release-validation suites. •Release gating. Define what a release must pass before it reaches a bench, a proving ground, or a site. Own pass criteria, reporting, and the path from a failing scenario to a resolution. •Build versus buy. Evaluate commercial simulation platforms against in-house development, make a recommendation with cost, lead time, coverage, and maintenance attached, and own the resulting vendor relationships and service levels. •Simulation fidelity. Measure where simulation and vehicle behavior agree and where they diverge, and report it as a standing metric. •Technical standard. Set the engineering practices for testing, review, documentation, and reporting of simulation results. Mentor engineers on the team and participate in hiring. •Cross-functional interfaces. Internal customers are autonomy engineering and robotics, safety, testing, and others. Represent simulation's priorities and constraints to them, and carry their requirements into the roadmap. Compensation: •$208,000 - $263,000 / year •You may also be eligible for equity awards Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!