Autonomous System Test Engineer
Australia, Queensland
Parttime: 0 hrs a week
Experience: 4-6 Years
Information Technology
Australia, Queensland
Parttime: 0 hrs a week
Experience: 4-6 Years
Information Technology
Brunel has partnered with a global autonomous systems company deploying real-world autonomy across mining, automotive and logistics, on a contract opportunity for Autonomous System Test Engineer. This is a site-based role supporting autonomous vehicle operations in a live environment. The role operates on an 8/6 roster in New South Wales, open to candidates based in NSW or Queensland.
We're looking for a System Test Engineer to join our Mining Autonomy team and serve as the first line of defense on customer sites for issues coming out of our autonomy stack. Haul trucks, loaders, and dozers running our software generate huge volumes of drive logs, simulation runs, and on-site reports every day, and your job is to make sense of them: catch the real problems, weed out the noise, reproduce what you can, and get every issue into the hands of the right engineer with enough context for them to fix it fast.
This role sits at the intersection of engineering and our mining customers. You'll be in regular contact with site engineers, fleet operators, and customer technical leads, joining their standups, walking their pits when needed, and being the voice they hear when something on the trucks doesn't behave the way they expect. Customers will know you by name. Part of your job is making them feel heard: turning a frustrated phone call from a site into a clean reproduction, a tracked issue, and a clear answer on when a fix is coming. The other part is protecting our engineers' focus by making sure only real, well-characterized problems reach their queue.
You'll spend your time inside logs, dashboards, simulation tools, Jira, and on calls with customers. You'll work shoulder-to-shoulder with perception, planning, controls, and platform engineers, and you'll become the person both they and our customers trust to tell them what's actually broken and what isn't. Test sites are remote, conditions are dusty, and the trucks are very large, so a bias toward repeatable, evidence-based bug reports - and a calm presence on a customer call - go a long way.
If you like digging into messy data, finding the one frame where everything went sideways, and being the connective tissue between customers, field operations, and the engineers who ship fixes, this role is for you.
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Brunel is a specialist recruitment and workforce solutions provider, connecting talented people with opportunities throughout Australasia and around the world. We specialise in highly skilled ICT and technical roles, pairing candidates with industry-leading projects and organisations on a contract, permanent or secondment basis.
Operating in Australasia since 1997, Brunel has major bases in Perth, Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne, backed by the strength and reach of a global network spanning more than 45 countries, 120 offices and 45 years of successful operation.
Brunel is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and female candidates.
If you have any questions or would like to discuss this role, please contact j.bellinger-brown@brunel.net.
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