Senior Systems Engineer — Diagnostics & Failure Analysis

Cssmerge; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 176,000 - 242,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision insurance

401(k)

Equity

Paid holidays

Parental leave

Pre-Tax Commuter Benefit

Job summary

Atoms is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to own diagnostics and failure analysis across our development fleet. You will triage failures from logs to root cause, shaping severity models and the diagnostic tooling that speeds identification.

The role spans multiple vehicle platforms and requires time in the garage and around vehicles. The ideal candidate has 6+ years in systems integration and diagnostics for vehicles, with strong Python skills and experience building automated triage systems.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in systems integration, diagnostics, or hardware and software interface engineering on vehicles.
• Experience with end-to-end failure analysis across hardware and software components.

Responsibilities

• Triage failures and classify them by software, firmware, hardware, data path, or system-level regressions with evidence.
• Conduct root cause analysis using logs, telemetry, bus traces, and video to establish root cause.
• Develop parsing, correlation, and visualization tools to make large log datasets tractable for engineers.
• Build automated classification frameworks to detect known failure signatures and reduce repeats.
• Monitor data-path integrity including logging, timestamps, bandwidth, and storage to catch deteriorating data quality.
• Perform severity and trend analysis to identify priority failure clusters.
• Document root cause analysis standards and author troubleshooting guides.

Skills

Python

Diagnostics

Root cause analysis

Data visualization

Log analysis

Fleet data monitoring

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

CAN/CAN FD

Automotive Ethernet

Cloud storage

SQL/NoSQL databases

Job description

Atoms is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to own diagnostics and failure analysis across our development fleet. You will triage failures from logs to root cause, shaping severity models and the diagnostic tooling that speeds identification.

The role spans multiple vehicle platforms and requires time in the garage and around vehicles. The ideal candidate has 6+ years in systems integration and diagnostics for vehicles, with strong Python skills and experience building automated triage systems.