Senior Autonomy Release Engineer II

About the role

May Mobility is transforming cities through autonomous technology to create a safer, greener, and more accessible world. Our vehicles do more than just drive themselves - they provide value to communities, bridge public transit gaps, and move people where they need to go safely, easily, and with a lot more fun. We're building the world's best autonomy system to reimagine transit by minimizing congestion, expanding access, and encouraging better land use.

Responsibilities

• Release ownership and execution end-to-end across major autonomy releases, incremental/performance releases, and hotfix/safety patches
• Manage branching strategy, versioning, and release cut processes
• Drive release readiness and go/no-go decisions
• Partner cross-functionally with Autonomy, Infra, Validation, and Fleet Ops
• Act as a system owner for release readiness
• Investigate and resolve complex issues arising from software/hardware interactions, distributed systems behavior, on-vehicle vs simulation discrepancies
• Develop deep understanding of sensor stack, middleware, autonomy stack, compute platforms, networking, configurations
• Be the go-to for why something fails in the real world, what changed between releases, and system-level issues caused by the interplay between different software and hardware components
• Enforce stage-gated release framework: Feature Complete → Code Freeze → Validation → Release Candidate
• Integrate validation signals: simulation corpus results, regression testing, vehicle testing (HIL / on-road)
• Ensure safety-critical issues are identified, tracked, and gated
• Take initiative to find and permanently solve challenging system level issues
• Collaborate and lead system-wide improvements when working with other teams without having direct ownership or management responsibility
• Assess and develop approaches that scale and improve performance in a variety of ways (e.g. CPU performance, memory usage, disk usage, network usage)
• Assess and improve system robustness to systematic stochastic and transient issues that impact autonomous vehicle performance
• Support other autonomy engineers in designing and integrating their components with the full May system

Qualifications and Experience

• 7+ years in autonomous systems, release engineering, and DevOps
• Strong Python and scripting skills
• Working knowledge or familiarity with C/C++
• Experience working across full product lifecycle
• Proven ability to debug complex system-level issues
• Strong communication skills across technical domains

Desirable

• 10+ years of experience in autonomous robotic systems, DevOps, and release engineering
• Experience with autonomous cars, trucks, or similar vehicles
• A masters or PhD degree in Robotics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or an applied engineering field
• Previous experience in a startup or high-performance research and development group with an emphasis on delivery
• Experience with AV or robotics systems
• Familiarity with simulation frameworks, HIL / vehicle testing, and safety-critical systems (ISO 26262, SOTIF)

Physical Requirements

Prolonged sitting, prolonged standing, prolonged computer use

Salary Range

$176,000 - $253,000 USD