Senior/Staff Hardware Systems Engineer

Humble Robotics•San Francisco, CA

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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.

Nice To Haves

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.
Comfortable working through ambiguity and defining the process - requirements tooling, review cadence, traceability

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.