About the role
Who We Are
Gatik is in the business of autonomous freight, and that business is already on the road.
Every day, Gatik’s autonomous trucks move freight for Fortune 50 retailers, grocers and consumer brands across Texas, Arizona, Arkansas and Canada, connecting distribution centers and stores and keeping goods moving. At the heart of it all is the Gatik Driver™, our proprietary Level 4 autonomous driving system, powered by scalable, interpretable AI and engineered to deliver safe, reliable, high-frequency freight operations.
Gatik’s momentum is real. With more than $600 million in contracted revenue and $200 million raised in our August 2026 Series D round, Gatik has taken one of the toughest challenges in autonomous technology and turned it into a proven commercial business.
And the market is paying attention. In 2026, Gatik earned a place on Forbes' America's Best Startup Employers list, Fast Company's World's Most Innovative Companies list and the Inc. 5000 list of America's fastest-growing private companies. The Gatik Driver™ won an Edison Award for Advancements in Autonomous Driving, and Inc. named our Co-founder and Chief Engineer, Apeksha Kumavat, to its Female Founders 500 list.
There's a lot more road ahead, and some of the brightest, most driven minds in autonomous technology are building the next chapter at Gatik. We're taking on hard engineering problems, pushing the limits of what's possible and building on a commercial foundation that's already proven itself in the real world with some of the biggest companies in the world, like PepsiCo and Loblaw. If you're ambitious, love solving problems that matter and want to see your work make a real difference, you'll find plenty to get excited about here.
About the role
The Senior V&V Engineer – HIL & Bench will build, execute, and scale Gatik’s hardware-in-the-loop testing infrastructure. In this role, you will test autonomous vehicle software on production compute units, ECUs, sensors, and drive-by-wire hardware before code ever touches a physical vehicle. You will design real-time hardware test benches, execute fault-injection suites, and validate ASIL functional safety mechanisms under hardware-accurate conditions.
This role is onsite 5 days a week at our Santa Clara, CA office!
What you'll do
Key Responsibilities • HIL Architecture & Maintenance: Design, construct, and maintain multi-ECU HIL test benches representing complete AV vehicle electronics. • Sensor Injection & Signal Simulation: Integrate sensor simulation technology into real-time test setups. • Hardware Fault Injection: Develop automated physical and electrical fault-injection test suites (e.g., open circuit, short to ground, latency spikes, corrupted signals, power dropouts). • Automated Test Frameworks: Write robust Python and C++ test scripts within CI/CD pipelines to execute overnight regression suites on physical HIL rigs. • ISO 26262 Hardware Verification: Execute requirements-based testing to generate formal V&V audit evidence for ISO 26262 hardware functional safety compliance. • Cross-Team Issue Triaging: Root-cause hardware-software interface bugs, bus timing errors, and ECU communication anomalies alongside Hardware and Autonomy engineering teams.
Minimum Qualifications • Education: B.S. or M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechatronics, or Robotics. • Experience: 5+ years in HIL test environment development and execution for autonomous driving, ADAS, or automotive systems. • Technical Mastery: • Proven expertise setting up and operating commercial HIL hardware (dSPACE SCALEXIO/AutoBox, NI PXI, Vector VT System). • Advanced scripting skills in Python and MATLAB/Simulink for automated test execution. • Deep understanding of CAN, CAN-FD, Automotive Ethernet, LIN, SPI, and GMSL/FPD-Link protocols.
Preferred Qualifications • Direct experience in ISO 26262 V&V sign-off audits for production vehicle releases.
Salary Range - $160,000- $240,000
More about Gatik
Founded in 2017, Gatik has grown into a commercial force in autonomous freight, operating trucks daily in live customer networks across the United States and Canada. We're headquartered in Santa Clara, California, but our impact is felt on the roads and in the supply chains that keep essential goods moving for some of the biggest companies in North America.
Our trucks do some of the most demanding work in freight, running high-frequency, time-sensitive routes between distribution centers and stores, where reliability matters every single day. For our customers, that means more capacity, better service and products arriving where they need to be, when they need to be there.
Behind it all is AI-first technology built from the ground up for autonomous trucking, capable of navigating highways and surface streets and tackling the complexity of real-world logistics at scale.
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Notable News
For the latest company news, visit the Gatik newsroom.
Recent media coverage: • TechCrunch: Self-driving truck startup Gatik raises $200M following PepsiCo deal • Reuters: Gatik secures $200 million in funding as autonomous freight market accelerates • Bloomberg: Driverless Trucks Can Save Lives on America's Roads • PepsiCo website: PepsiCo and Gatik announce multi-year agreement to deploy autonomous freight in North America • Wall Street Journal: Driverless Trucks Are Here - and They’re Delivering Bags of Doritos • CBS News: Pepsi deploys self-driving delivery trucks • Bloomberg: Autonomous Trucking Firm Gatik Inks Contracts Worth $600 Million • Forbes: Hundreds’ Of Gatik Robot Delivery Trucks Headed For U.S. Roads • CNBC-TV18: No more test runs: Gatik says driverless trucks are now a real, money-making business • Forbes: Gatik And Loblaw Announce Largest Commercial Deployment Of AV Trucks
Taking care of our team
At Gatik, we connect people of extraordinary talent and experience to an opportunity to create a more resilient supply chain and contribute to our environment’s sustainability. We are diverse in our backgrounds and perspectives yet united by a bold vision and shared commitment to our values. Our culture emphasizes the importance of collaboration, respect and agility.
We at Gatik strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels they have opportunities to succeed and grow because we know that together we can do great things. We are committed to an inclusive and diverse team. We do not discriminate based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any legally protected status.
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