Autonomy Release Engineer II

May Mobility

Autonomy Release Engineer II ensuring software safety and reliability for autonomous vehicles. Collaborating with teams to drive release readiness and improving system performance.

Posted 5/7/2026full-timeRemote • Missouri • 🇺🇸 United StatesJuniorMid-Level💰 $128,000 - $165,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed SystemsLinuxPythonSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

Requirements

What you’ll need

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

Benefits

Comp & perks

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

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Hard Skills & Tools

PythonBash scriptingLinuxSQLversion control systemsbranching strategiesrelease engineeringsystems engineeringautomated validationregression testing

Soft Skills

troubleshootingattention to detailcross-functional collaborationproblem-solvingcommunication

Certifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer ScienceBachelor's degree in Electrical EngineeringBachelor's degree in Robotics