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Senior Software Engineer, Simulation

Summary

Build and maintain a high-fidelity simulation environment for autonomous ground-handling vehicles, integrating with the autonomy stack and running large-scale, deterministic test suites in the cloud.

Who We Are

AeroVect is transforming ground handling with autonomy, redefining how airlines and ground service providers around the globe run day-to-day operations. We are a Series A company backed by top-tier venture capital investors in aviation and autonomous driving. Our customers include some of the world’s largest airlines and ground handling providers. For more information, visit .

You will own and extend the simulation tooling. A significant part of the role is test quality. A test suite that produces flaky failures does not provide usable information. Determinism, reproducibility, and verifying that each gate is capable of failing are ongoing responsibilities rather than one-off tasks.

You Will

  • Build and extend the capabilities of the simulation environment: integration with the production autonomy stack, the interfaces it consumes, vehicle and actor models, and the range of environmental and operational conditions that can be represented

  • Maintain and improve that integration as the autonomy stack evolves, including fidelity work where the difference between simulated and real inputs changes how the stack behaves

  • Build and operate scenario execution in the cloud: orchestration, parallelism, result aggregation, artifact capture, and runtime cost modelling

  • Build and extend the evaluation layer that turns a run into a verdict — assertions and pass/fail criteria precise enough to gate a release and stable enough to avoid false failures

  • Build failure-triage tooling: failure clustering, per-failure recordings, and dashboards that autonomy engineers can use without assistance

  • Extend the scenario authoring tooling used by the V&V team, across backend and frontend

  • Maintain simulation foundations: determinism and reproducibility, pipeline performance, and extending coverage to additional maps and sites

You Have

  • Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or related field

  • Strong Python, with a track record of maintainable code in a shared codebase

  • Hands-on simulation experience for autonomous systems, familiarity with simulation platforms such as CARLA, Applied Intuition, Foretellix, NVIDIA Omniverse, IsaacSim, Gazebo, or a proprietary in-house simulator Working knowledge of simulation, modelling, and validation methodology, including how simulated results are used to support claims about real-world behaviour

  • Docker and Linux, distributed-systems fundamentals, and experience with GPU-based simulation environments CI/CD and cloud execution, experience integrating automated test workflows into CI for end-to-end validation coverage

  • Experience analyzing simulation output and telemetry to identify performance bottlenecks and failure modes

  • Debugging and profiling skills suited to distributed, GPU-bound systems

We Prefer

  • Master’s in Computer Science, Robotics, or related field

  • Experience designing and validating safety-critical systems in autonomous driving, aerospace, or robotics

  • Experience developing or maintaining autonomous vehicle software stacks (ROS/ROS2)

  • Cloud-based simulation infrastructure and large-scale distributed test execution

  • Sensor modelling (camera, lidar, radar), environment generation, or perception ground-truth pipelines

  • Automated testing, continuous integration, and data-driven validation

  • Log/bag re-simulation from recorded real-world data

  • Test-signal quality work: flake reduction, determinism debugging, golden-output comparison

  • Safety standards exposure: ISO 26262, ISO 21448 (SOTIF), UL4600, ISO 13849

What this application asks

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Name, Email, Resume

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  • Do you have experience with simulation in robotics, automotive, or autonomous driving? yes / no
  • Are you located in North America or Europe? yes / no
  • Will you now or in the future require sponsorship to work in the US or Europe? yes / no

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