Triage Operator & SW Development

Title/Project

Triage Operator & SW Development

Location

Palo Alto, CA

Description of service

We are seeking a detail-oriented and proactive individual to join ourTriage Ops team as a Contingent Worker.

• Please ensure that the candidates submitted for this request are made aware that this is specifically a contingent worker role. It is important to emphasize and reinforce this message in any subsequent communication, including during interviews. Woven by Toyota will not be the direct employer of any candidates submitted through this requisition.
• The primary responsibility of this role is to triage autonomous vehicle issues across on-road and simulation domains, and to directly contribute bug fixes to the C++ autonomy codebase via pull requests. The role requires a combination of strong data analysis skills for issue detection and root cause identification, and hands-on software engineering experience to investigate, fix, and close bugs in a production AV system.

Key Responsibilities

Bug Triage

• Analyze complex streams of on-road or sim data (logs, video files, sensor data, and metadata) to triage and identify issues detected during autonomous vehicle drives.
• Correlate on-road issues with corresponding SIM scenarios where applicable, to enable reproduction, regression testing, and improved coverage.
• Ensure consistent categorization and prioritization across triage workflows.
• Distinguish between SIM environment/tooling issues and AV stack behavior issues, and route to the appropriate owning team.

Bug fixing and closing

• Navigate a large C++ autonomy codebase to investigate root causes identified through triage, tracing issues through relevant modules (e.g., perception, planning, controls).
• Author targeted bug fixes and submit pull requests to the autonomy repository, following team code review and contribution standards.
• Participate in code reviews, providing and incorporating feedback to maintain code quality and system stability.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Work closely with Vehicle Operations, Simulation Operations, and core engineering teams (e.g., perception, planning, controls, infrastructure) to ensure correct understanding, prioritization, and routing of issues.
• Interface regularly with core engineering to discuss issues, capture context, and maintain a working understanding of the overall autonomous driving and simulation platforms.

Skillset Requirements

Must Haves

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related Engineering or STEM fields.
• 5+ years experience in data science or related areas.
• 2+ years experience in triaging Autonomous Vehicle issues.
• C++ programming experience.
• Experience in sw development in a production environment.

Nice Haves

• Master's degree in related fields.
• CI/CD, GitHub Actions.
• ML knowledge.