Senior/Staff/Principal Systems Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California.

📋 Description

• Establish requirements for system-level functionality, performance, and fault behavior.

• Collaborate with hardware and software engineers to develop subsystem requirements.

• Take ownership of system analysis, including conducting hazard analyses, FMEAs, and fault trees.

• Specify responses for platforms, operators, and operating procedures in the event of failures or degraded performance across various environments.

• Lead the design of next-generation architecture, perform trade studies, and outline requirements for safety-critical control systems.

• Address issues related to safety controllers, emergency stops, and interactions between humans and machines as well as machine-to-machine communication.

• Convert system and safety requirements into concrete engineering tasks, verification approaches, and deployment documentation.

• Ensure that architectural and engineering practices adhere to relevant safety standards, such as BS EN 17067:2018, BS EN 62745:2017, and ISO 17757:2019.

• Act as a technical resource for customers, OEM partners, and other external stakeholders regarding system architecture and safety design.

• Travel approximately 10–20% to customer locations, with more frequent travel expected during the initial months.

⛳️ Requirements

• A BS or advanced degree in electrical, mechanical, systems, or a related engineering discipline, or over 10 years of systems engineering or equivalent practical experience.

• Extensive experience in designing or integrating complex, safety-critical electromechanical or distributed systems.

• Capability to reason across hardware, software, networking, controls, and physical machine behavior.

• Proven experience in drafting clear, testable system requirements and interfaces.

• Familiarity with applying system or functional safety methodologies throughout design, integration, and verification processes.

• Experience with multi-machine systems, including fleet management and scenarios where one operator controls multiple machines or networking that spans across machines and locations.

• Expertise in tailoring systems engineering and safety processes for a dynamic team environment.

• Strong communication skills to articulate technical trade-offs to engineers, customers, and partners.

• Demonstrated ability to influence and guide cross-disciplinary technical decisions through sound judgment.

• Willingness to engage hands-on with debugging, data analysis, and machine testing as necessary.

• Valuable experience in various relevant areas might include autonomous vehicles, mobile robotics, heavy equipment, defense, functional safety standards, safety certification, teleoperation, distributed robotics, real-time networking, embedded systems, safety controllers, PLCs, CAN/J1939, hardware-in-the-loop testing, fault injection, robotics perception, localization, planning, control, autonomy safety, validation of machine-learning components, Python or similar system modeling tools, human factors, operator interface design, human-machine interaction, and off-road or unstructured operating environments.

🏝️ Benefits

• Opportunity for remote work within the United States.

• Approximately 10–20% travel to customer sites.