Autonomy Systems Engineering Leader

Nuro; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 283,640 - 425,960; Full time

Job summary

Nuro is seeking a Head of Systems Engineering to own the end‑to‑end systems backbone for the Nuro Driver, unifying autonomy, software, hardware, safety case and deployment readiness. This leader will align product, safety, and commercial milestones into a coherent system strategy.

You will scale the Systems Engineering function across cities and vehicle platforms, drive a rigorous safety argument, and build a high‑caliber team that can translate complex requirements into measurable performance

Qualifications

• 10+ years of systems engineering experience in a related field (e.g., automotive, aerospace, defense, robotics, or another safety‑critical domain).
• 7+ years managing managers and scaling high‑performing engineering organizations.

Responsibilities

• Own and scale Nuro’s Systems Engineering function across autonomy, hardware, safety case, requirements, validation, system performance, and deployment readiness.
• Define the systems engineering strategy required to support growth across multiple cities, vehicle platforms, commercial partnerships, and future international markets.
• Translate product goals, safety goals, commercial use cases, and deployment milestones into system requirements, measurable performance targets, validation plans, and launch readiness frameworks.
• Own the requirements architecture, system decomposition, and interface management for the Nuro Driver across autonomy software, sensing, compute, vehicle software and hardware, and safety.
• Drive the system‑level safety case in collaboration with Autonomy, Hardware, Legal, Product, and Operations, ensuring the safety argument is rigorous and evidence‑based.
• Define the technical and validation framework for public‑road operation, commercial launch, geographic expansion, platform expansion, and new use cases.
• Lead technical analyses and trade studies that inform architecture, sensing configuration, compute strategy, vehicle integration, safety mitigations, ODD expansion, and deployment readiness.
• Create mechanisms for risk identification, readiness reviews, requirements governance, launch decision‑making, and cross‑functional execution.
• Build, develop, and retain a high‑caliber Systems Engineering organization.

Skills

Systems engineering

Leadership

Communication

People management

Job description

Nuro is seeking a Head of Systems Engineering to own the end‑to‑end systems backbone for the Nuro Driver, unifying autonomy, software, hardware, safety case and deployment readiness. This leader will align product, safety, and commercial milestones into a coherent system strategy.

You will scale the Systems Engineering function across cities and vehicle platforms, drive a rigorous safety argument, and build a high‑caliber team that can translate complex requirements into measurable performance