The company

Outrider, the pioneer in autonomous yard operations for logistics hubs, helps large enterprises improve safety, increase efficiency, and optimize their workforce. The only company exclusively focused on automating all aspects of yard operations, Outrider eliminates manual tasks that are hazardous and repetitive. Outrider’s mission is to drive the rapid adoption of sustainable freight transportation by deploying zero-emission systems. Outrider is a private company backed by NEA, 8VC, and other top-tier investors.

The role

The CI/CD Software and Test Engineer will report to the Director of Test Engineering and will be responsible for establishing and building out a Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery pipeline; use-case and regression test procedure creation and execution; and bug identification, logging and resolution. 

This position is mission-critical for delivering a safe, effective, first-of-its-kind industrial technology, and will build the foundation for the company’s CI/CD pipeline and its integration with the entire engineering suite. The successful candidate will be up for a challenge to build infrastructure from the ground up, own and lead projects, greatly effect a rapidly growing engineering team, and test and validate autonomous vehicle systems that redefine large enterprise supply chains.

Duties and responsibilities

• • Gain consensus with multiple teams on best approach for CI/CD for our technology, team, company strategy, and market
  • Develop system reporting infrastructure to provide clear and concise information to the team about build status, test status, and builds on vehicles
  • Partner with test and development teams to increase unit and regression test coverage and establish common measurements for coverage
  • Establish a flexible and nimble system, including build schedule and associated test automation, that can change as the company grows
  • Generate, organize, manage, and conduct system verification tests and test procedures to validate compliance with specifications before releasing vehicles and software deliveries to customers
  • Define and lead the development of software test harnesses
  • Contribute to the development of analysis tools using Python and other software packages
  • Contribute to the company’s modeling, simulation, test automation, and evaluation capabilities
  • Develop, execute, and document test plans and procedures against system requirements and report results to both internal and external customers
  • Work with the team to understand and prioritize test exceptions and help drive toward a product that meets all customer, business, and technical expectations
  • Commit to travel and perform field work, depending on initial customer locations (up to 25%)

Required qualifications

• • Bachelor’s degree in computer science and/or electrical/electronics engineering
  • Experience building a CI/CD pipeline from the ground up
  • C/C++ development experience
  • Familiarity with ROS and Python
  • Experience with CMake and Bash
  • Experience with containers
  • Comfort with Linux and command line
  • Test, debug, and system engineering mindset
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Exceptional analytical skills
  • Strong leadership and people skills

Ideal qualifications

• • Experience with robotics software engineering, autonomous vehicle systems, computer vision, machine learning, and/or planning and controls
  • Background as a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
  • Experience with catkin
  • Familiarity with AWS, Azure, and/or GCP
  • Familiarity with Atlassian suite integration
  • Experience with Docker
  • Master’s degree in computer science, robotics, electrical/electronics engineering, or computer engineering