Summary
Jair Gonzalez is an Autonomous Vehicle Integration Engineer with eight years of experience blending software testing, QA, and operational safety in automotive and aviation contexts. Currently at Mercedes‑Benz R&D after testing experimental AV software and safety practices at Zoox, he specializes in validating complex vehicle behaviors and integrating software into rigorous manufacturing and field workflows. Comfortable across Java, TypeScript/Node.js, C/C++, Linux and AWS, he pairs hands‑on coding with pragmatic test design and cross‑team collaboration. His background supervising ramp operations taught him high-stakes compliance and payload discipline, a perspective he leverages to drive safety-first engineering decisions. An active community builder—former GitHub intern, GitHub Campus Expert and SF Hacks mentor—he also founded a large university tech Discord, showing a knack for scaling technical communities alongside product work.
8 years of coding experience
Computer Science, Computer Science at San Francisco State University
English, Spanish