Senior HIL Systems Engineer for Autonomous Vehicle Labs

Brahma Consulting Group; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Brahma Consulting Group is hiring a Senior Systems Integration Engineer (Hardware-in-the-Loop) in San Francisco. You will design and own HIL benches that validate the autonomy stack off-vehicle, ensuring changes are proven on reliable production-grade benches.

You will work hands-on with lidar, radar, and cameras, build end-to-end benches, and drive CI/CD, tool automation, and documentation to enable multiple teams to self-serve.

Qualifications

• 4–6 years as a systems integration, HIL or test systems engineer at an autonomous vehicle or robotics company.
• Hands‑on experience building and debugging HIL / test benches.
• Direct experience with lidar, radar and camera sensors.
• Vehicle networks: CAN, CAN FD, LIN, Automotive Ethernet, restbus simulation, DBC/LDF.
• Python and C/C++; ROS / rosbag; CI/CD.
• Electrical engineering background preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and commission HIL test racks from architecture to bench.
• Own benches end-to-end and maintain CI/CD stability.
• Simulate vehicle systems and replay sensor data for repeatable bench tests.
• Lead root-cause debugging of system‑level failures across sensors and compute and implement design fixes.
• Continuously improve bench tooling and automation and write clear documentation for self‑serve teams.

Skills

Systems integration

HIL testing

Lidar sensors

Radar sensors

Camera sensors

Vehicle networks (CAN/CAN FD/LIN)

Automotive Ethernet

ROS / rosbag

Python

C/C++

CI/CD

Electrical engineering

Tools

CAN / CAN FD tooling

DBC/LDF

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Brahma Consulting Group is hiring a Senior Systems Integration Engineer (Hardware-in-the-Loop) in San Francisco. You will design and own HIL benches that validate the autonomy stack off-vehicle, ensuring changes are proven on reliable production-grade benches.

You will work hands-on with lidar, radar, and cameras, build end-to-end benches, and drive CI/CD, tool automation, and documentation to enable multiple teams to self-serve.