Senior Systems Engineer - High-Reliability Autonomous Systems

Apera; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Apera seeks a Senior Systems Engineer to join an innovative engineering team deploying complex electromechanical systems into safety-critical environments. You will help develop and deploy high-reliability autonomous systems already in real-world operation.

You’ll collaborate across hardware, software, controls, operations, and certification to scale the technology, improve reliability, and mature the systems engineering processes as the company grows.

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Aerospace/Systems/Electrical/Mechanical Engineering.
• 5–10+ years of experience in safety-critical electromechanical systems.
• Experience across systems design, not single-discipline work.
• Proven ability to solve complex multidisciplinary problems.
• Experience with modeling, simulation, statistics for problem solving.
• Knowledge of fail-safe and fail-operational architectures.
• Experience with energy budgets, flight dynamics, reliability, and statistics.
• Experience implementing systems engineering processes.
• Strong communication across engineering disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Act as technical expert in deploying high-reliability autonomous systems into safety-critical environments, owning requirements, metrics, test coverage, and validation processes.
• Own system and subsystem requirements, including definition, decomposition, allocation, and traceability.
• Define system interfaces and work across engineering disciplines to establish and manage technical budgets.
• Develop frameworks and facilitate trade studies to optimise system architecture and operational decisions.
• Evaluate hardware and software release standards, verification strategies, and test requirements.
• Work closely with design engineering, systems engineering, test, and certification teams to demonstrate system safety and readiness for deployment.
• Identify complex technical risks and develop practical, data-driven solutions across multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Help establish and continuously improve systems engineering processes as the organisation scales.

Skills

System-level design

Trade studies

Reliability analysis

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Bachelor's / Master's in Engineering

Tools

SysML

Simulation tools

Job description

Apera seeks a Senior Systems Engineer to join an innovative engineering team deploying complex electromechanical systems into safety-critical environments. You will help develop and deploy high-reliability autonomous systems already in real-world operation.

You’ll collaborate across hardware, software, controls, operations, and certification to scale the technology, improve reliability, and mature the systems engineering processes as the company grows.