Senior/Staff Systems Engineer (Platform Systems)

Join our team as a Senior/Staff Systems Engineer, where you will lead system-level requirements definition, architecture design, integration strategy, and validation in one of the platform areas. You will characterize and quantify system performance, recommend operating constraints, define test coverage, and collaborate with software, hardware, and EE teams. You will also support V&V by reviewing and suggesting additional tests and analyzing test data. This position offers benefits such as a free Caltrain pass, company stock options, work from home opportunities, and health insurance.

Responsibilities

• Lead system-level requirements definition, architecture design, integration strategy, and validation in one of the platform areas.
• Characterize and quantify system performance for that area: define nominal targets, minimum performance, and acceptance criteria across all ODDs.
• Partner with software teams to define interfaces, performance metrics, failure modes, and validation strategies; validate platform modules against ground truth where applicable.

Requirements

• Strong communication skills - both verbal and written

Hands on experience in systems engineering

• Deep understanding of how robotic systems work and ability to leverage this knowledge to plan for verification and validation
• Experience testing in HIL environments or on road testing
• 3+ years of experience in one of the platform areas — autonomy sensors, AV compute, motion control, pose/localization, or end-to-end latency
• Ability to read code in C++ and write code in Python / MATLAB
• Familiarity with other safety standards such as STPA, ISO-21448

Preferred

• AV or ADAS background

Pay

USD 160,360 - 291,150