Autonomy Release Engineer II

Summary

May Mobility is transforming cities through autonomous technology to create a safer, greener, more accessible world. The Autonomous Release Engineer II will ensure software is safely releasable and performs reliably in real-world conditions while interacting with various components of the autonomy system.

Responsibilities

• Release ownership and execution 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 in partnership with cross-functional teams
• Design, build, and maintain internal tooling to support:
• Release readiness dashboards and automated health checks
• Simulation corpus integration and regression tracking
• Release metrics collection, reporting, and visualization
• Automated validation signal aggregation across sim, HIL, and on-road testing
• Investigate and resolve complex issues arising from software/hardware interactions, distributed systems behavior, and on-vehicle vs. simulation discrepancies
• Develop working understanding of sensor stack, middleware, autonomy stack, compute platforms, networking, and vehicle configurations
• Enforce stage-gated release framework: Feature Complete → Code Freeze → Validation → Release Candidate
• Integrate and interpret validation signals including simulation corpus results, regression testing, and vehicle testing
• Ensure safety-critical issues are identified, tracked, and gated appropriately
• Identify opportunities to improve system robustness, performance, and scalability — and build tooling to measure and track improvements
• Support autonomy engineers in designing and integrating their components with the full May system
• Contribute to and help maintain the team's knowledge base, runbooks, and release documentation

Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or a related technical field — or equivalent practical experience
• 2–4 years of relevant experience in software engineering, release engineering, systems engineering, or a related discipline
• Proficiency in Python; comfort with Bash scripting and Linux environments
• Basic to intermediate experience with SQL and/or data querying
• Familiarity with version control systems (Git) and branching strategies
• Strong troubleshooting instincts and attention to detail
• Strong analytical and systems-thinking skills — comfortable reasoning about complex, multi-component systems
• Familiarity with data pipelines, metrics collection, and visualization tools (e.g. Plotly Dash, Tableau, AWS QuickSight, or similar)
• Ability to read and interpret logs, telemetry, and system health signals to identify root cause
• Comfort working across hardware and software boundaries
• Strong written and verbal communication — able to translate technical findings into clear release decisions
• Ability to work cross-functionally without direct authority
• Eagerness to continuously learn new systems, tools, and workflows
• Experience with autonomous vehicle or robotics systems
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and release automation
• Exposure to simulation frameworks or hardware-in-the-loop testing
• Basic C/C++ reading ability for debugging and code analysis
• Experience building internal tools or dashboards for engineering teams

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or a related technical field — or equivalent practical experience
• 2–4 years of relevant experience in software engineering, release engineering, systems engineering, or a related discipline
• Proficiency in Python; comfort with Bash scripting and Linux environments
• Basic to intermediate experience with SQL and/or data querying
• Familiarity with version control systems (Git) and branching strategies
• Strong troubleshooting instincts and attention to detail
• Strong analytical and systems-thinking skills — comfortable reasoning about complex, multi-component systems
• Familiarity with data pipelines, metrics collection, and visualization tools (e.g. Plotly Dash, Tableau, AWS QuickSight, or similar)
• Ability to read and interpret logs, telemetry, and system health signals to identify root cause
• Comfort working across hardware and software boundaries
• Strong written and verbal communication — able to translate technical findings into clear release decisions
• Ability to work cross-functionally without direct authority
• Eagerness to continuously learn new systems, tools, and workflows

Nice to Haves

• Experience with autonomous vehicle or robotics systems
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and release automation
• Exposure to simulation frameworks or hardware-in-the-loop testing
• Basic C/C++ reading ability for debugging and code analysis
• Experience building internal tools or dashboards for engineering teams

Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare suite including medical, dental, vision, life, and disability plans. Domestic partners who have been residing together at least one year are also eligible to participate.
• Health Savings and Flexible Spending Healthcare and Dependent Care Accounts available.
• Rich retirement benefits, including an immediately vested employer safe harbor match.
• Generous paid parental leave as well as a phased return to work.
• Flexible vacation policy in addition to paid company holidays.
• Total Wellness Program providing numerous resources for overall wellbeing