Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Behavior Verification
Samson Rose · San Francisco, CA
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Jul 14, 2026
San Francisco, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role focuses on building software and evaluation metrics to assess how autonomous vehicles behave across simulation and real-world testing environments. The work spans the full autonomy stack — from sensing and localization through to behavior planning and control — in close collaboration with multidisciplinary engineering teams. It suits an experienced software engineer with a background in robotics or autonomous systems who is comfortable owning verification and performance measurement work that informs deployment decisions.
Senior level · 5+ years · National · Bachelor's required
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (5)
The role title includes 'Verification' and the work involves validating/evaluating autonomous driving behavior, which has meaningful overlap with QA/testing (15-1253). However, the JD emphasizes building software and evaluation metrics from scratch — active development work — so Software Developers (15-1252) is the stronger fit, with 15-1253 as a close runner-up.
Python and C++ are listed together with an 'and/or' qualifier, making them interchangeable alternatives for the same requirement rather than two distinct stack technologies. They are emitted as a single skill with alternatives accordingly.
No work location is specified in the posting — the company is described as US-based but no city, state, or remote policy is mentioned.
The degree requirement states 'Bachelor's or Master's degree'; Bachelor's is the minimum hard floor and is captured. The Master's is an acceptable higher alternative, not a separate gate.
No compensation figures are provided.
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