Lead Autonomous Vehicle Engineer

Company Description

About Grab and Our Workplace

Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp. From getting your favourite meals delivered to helping you manage your finances and getting around town hassle-free, we've got your back with everything. In Grab, purpose gives us joy and habits build excellence, while harnessing the power of Technology and AI to deliver the mission of driving Southeast Asia forward by economically empowering everyone, with heart, hunger, honour, and humility.

Job Description

Get to Know the Team

Our team develops production-grade robotics and autonomy capabilities for the uniquely urban environments of Southeast Asia. We are advancing perception, planning, and control step by step, with safety evidence as the gate for every milestone. We focus on building system capabilities, scaling with uncompromised quality, and collaborating with industry leaders while investing in in-house expertise where it differentiates us.

Get to Know the Role

As a Lead Autonomous Vehicle Engineer (Sensor Calibration & Tooling), you are the foundation of our robotic platform's perception and localization systems. Your mission is to lead the end-to-end processes that ensure every sensor sees the world with geometric precision and temporal alignment. You will build the automated systems and tools that allow us to monitor a fleet of complex robots at scale, directly allowing the success of our downstream algorithms.

You will report to a Head of Engineering, work onsite in Grab One North, Singapore office, and contribute directly to both technical and strategic leadership.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• Oversee, operate, and improve the end-to-end calibration pipelines for our multi-sensor suite (camera, LiDAR, radar, IMU), from initial bring-up to fleet-wide maintenance.
• Lead the development of automated tooling to detect and correct for sensor drift in the field, ensuring system integrity and reliability over time.
• Architect and build the diagnostic and visualisation tools that empower perception and localization engineers to debug complex geometric and temporal issues.
• Integrate calibration and configuration management workflows into our core CI/CD and on-platform testing processes.
• Define and monitor quality metrics and readiness gates for safe rollouts, partnering with Perception and Localization teams to ensure data integrity.

Qualifications

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• Bachelor's of higher Degree in Robotics, EE, CS, or a related field, or equivalent 5 years+ practical experience.
• Experience with designing, building, and shipping production-grade calibration systems for complex, multi-sensor robots.
• Background in multi-sensor calibration (camera-LiDAR, camera-camera, radar-camera/LiDAR, IMU fusion) with hands-on experience in intrinsic and extrinsic calibration methods.
• C++ and Python programming skills.
• Knowledge of time synchronisation and the ability to design automated calibration pipelines.
• Experience building diagnostic and visualisation tools for sensor and debugging.

A big plus if you have:

• Experience with fleet-scale calibration challenges, such as online monitoring and drift detection.
• Experience with time synchronisation protocols and techniques.
• Proficiency with relevant libraries and tools (e.g., OpenCV, PCL, CeresSolver, and ROS/ROS2).
• Familiarity with factory and production-line calibration processes.

Additional Information

Life at Grab

We care about your well-being at Grab, here are some of the global benefits we offer:

• We have your back with Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.
• With GrabFlex, create a benefits package that suits your needs and aspirations.
• Celebrate moments that matter in life with loved ones through Parental and Birthday leave, and give back to your communities through Love-all-Serve-all (LASA) volunteering leave
• We have a confidential Grabber Assistance Programme to guide and uplift you and your loved ones through life's challenges.
• Balancing personal commitments and life's demands are made easier with our FlexWork arrangements such as differentiated hours

What We Stand For at Grab

We are committed to building an inclusive and equitable workplace that enables diverse Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. As an equal opportunity employer, we consider all candidates fairly and equally regardless of nationality, ethnicity, religion, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.