Senior/Staff Hardware Systems Engineer

Humble Robotics; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading autonomous vehicle company in San Francisco seeks a Systems Engineer to oversee requirements and architecture for their autonomous vehicle platform. Candidates should have a BS in Engineering and over 5 years of experience in systems engineering, especially within the automotive domain. Responsibilities include driving requirement processes and leading design reviews. The position offers competitive equity compensation and a collaborative work environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of high-impact systems engineering experience in automotive or similar domains.
• End-to-end ownership of at least one automotive program from requirements definition to production.
• Broad knowledge of vehicle hardware domains including compute, networking, and sensors.

Responsibilities

• Own system-level requirements and architecture for the autonomous vehicle platform.
• Drive the end-to-end requirements process: capture, review, and change control.
• Run cross-functional design reviews and orchestrate verification and validation of requirements.

Skills

Systems engineering

Requirements writing

Cross-functional collaboration

Functional safety

Education

BS in Electrical, Mechanical, Systems, or Computer Engineering

Job description

Position Overview

Own system-level requirements and architecture for our autonomous vehicle platform. Translate product and safety goals into clear, testable requirements across compute, networking, sensors, telematics, power distribution, and drive the design reviews and validation that prove them out end-to-end.

Key Responsibilities

• Decompose vehicle-level requirements down to subsystem and component level across compute, networking, sensors, telematics, power distribution, and articulate the rationale behind each.
• Partner with Mechanical Engineers to align on mechanical requirements - durability, vehicle dynamics, enclosures, sealing, etc.
• Drive the end-to-end requirements process: capture, review, baseline, and change control. Select and stand up the tooling that makes the highest impact (we are not tied to Jama or DOORS).
• Support system performance analysis, deviation analysis, structured testing, debugging, and system improvements.
• Run cross-functional design reviews and orchestrate verification and validation of requirements with HW, SW/Autonomy, Functional Safety, and Test teams.
• Partner with Functional Safety on HARA, safety goals, and ASIL-driven technical safety requirement decomposition; ensure traceability from item definition to test.
• Interface with SW/Autonomy on interfaces, timing, compute, and networking budgets; own the system-of-systems view and arbitrate trade-offs across domains.
• Lead root-cause analysis for cross-domain issues surfaced in bring-up, DV, or on-vehicle; feed learnings back into requirements and architecture.

Minimum Qualifications

• BS in Electrical, Mechanical, Systems, or Computer Engineering; 5+ years of high-impact systems engineering experience in automotive or similarly rigorous domains.
• End-to-end ownership on at least one automotive program from requirements definition through DV, PV, and SOP not just one slice of the V-cycle.
• Broad working knowledge of every major hardware domain on a vehicle: compute/SoCs, in-vehicle networking (CAN/CAN FD, Automotive Ethernet, LIN), sensors (camera, radar, lidar, IMU, GNSS), telematics, HV/LV power distribution, chassis, and powertrain.
• Demonstrated ability to write clear, testable requirements and defend the rationale behind them in cross-functional reviews.
• Hands‑on experience orchestrating design reviews, DFMEAs, and requirement-based V&V campaigns across multiple disciplines.
• Fluency with functional safety (ISO 26262) and practical use of HARA, safety goals, and ASIL decomposition.
• Comfortable working through ambiguity and defining the process - requirements tooling, review cadence, traceability.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience at an AV, robotaxi, autonomous trucking, or ADAS program at OEM/Tier-1.
• Track record of selecting, deploying, or replacing requirements management tooling.
• Exposure to HIL/SIL strategy and the instrumentation needed for on-vehicle verification.
• Experience working directly with powertrain, chassis, and/or HV traction systems on production vehicles.

Compensation

Salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including qualifications, skills, experience, and location. We also offer competitive equity compensation and benefits.

Equal Opportunity

Humble Robotics is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, gender, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, marital status or any other characteristics protected by law. Humble Robotics will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in a manner consistent with local ordinances.