Senior Hardware Systems Engineer for Autonomous Systems

Waabi; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 151,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellness benefits

Paid parental, medical and family care

Generous PTO

401(k) or RRSP options

Daily meals and snacks

Team building activities

Discretionary equity/bonus

Job summary

Waabi, a leader in Physical AI, is seeking a Systems Engineer to shape architectures for hardware development in autonomous transportation. You will transform product guidance into design across the full development lifecycle and author engineering artifacts.

The role requires a Bachelor’s in a relevant field and at least 4 years of experience (or 8 years total with advanced degrees), plus strong communication and MBSE capabilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field with at least 4 years of experience or a total of 8 years with advanced degrees.
• Strong verbal and written communication to drive architecture decisions in multi-domain environments.
• Experience in design, implementation, and test of complex hardware-software systems in industries like autonomous systems or large-scale computing infrastructure.
• Experience cultivating non-functional and quality attributes such as Safety and Security in system design.
• Expertise with systems engineering analysis methods and artifacts (Activity Diagrams, Functional Decompositions, FMEAs, test plans).
• Familiarity with industry standards; ISO 26262 knowledge is a plus; MBSE tools experience a plus.

Responsibilities

• Decompose product guidance into use cases and functional requirements.
• Be responsible for architectures and requirements sets for assigned system-level areas as part of Hardware Development.
• Work closely with stakeholders and domain engineers to transform product guidance into design through every stage of the product development lifecycle.
• Author and maintain systems engineering artifacts to accelerate Hardware Development efforts.
• Unblock multidisciplinary teams with new perspectives, requirements, and influence to ensure delivery of quality Hardware.
• Use data and engineering experience to qualify work products and arrive at a design compatible with organizational goals.
• Foster a culture of collaboration and learning within and between groups.

Skills

System architecture

Requirements management

Model-based systems engineering

Safety and security attributes

Strong communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, Mechatronics, or related field

Tools

Jama

Polarion

Requirements database

Job description

Waabi, a leader in Physical AI, is seeking a Systems Engineer to shape architectures for hardware development in autonomous transportation. You will transform product guidance into design across the full development lifecycle and author engineering artifacts.

The role requires a Bachelor’s in a relevant field and at least 4 years of experience (or 8 years total with advanced degrees), plus strong communication and MBSE capabilities.