Senior Systems Engineer, Platform Requirements and Interfaces

Atoms•San Francisco, CA

8d•$176,000 - $241,000•Onsite

About The Position

Atoms is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to own the system requirements and interface control documents for their autonomous vehicle and truck platforms. This role involves taking platform-level requirements and decomposing them into subsystem requirements, then developing a verification plan to confirm results against each requirement. The engineer will work across OEM vehicle platforms and off-highway trucks, creating the necessary documentation for specification and verification of new platform variants. The position requires deep integration across hardware, software, AI, operations, manufacturing, and real estate to deploy, operate, learn from, and improve robots at scale.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Robotics, Systems Engineering, or a related field.
5+ years of systems engineering experience.
Experience authoring system requirements for a vehicle, robotics, or comparable hardware and software system, including decomposition, allocation, and traceability to verification.
Experience writing and maintaining interface control documents, or equivalent interface specifications, between hardware and software subsystems.
Working experience with a requirements management tool such as Jama, DOORS, or Polarion, including configuring its structure, attributes, and traceability.
Experience writing verification plans and acceptance criteria and confirming test results against requirements.
Working knowledge of vehicle networks and interfaces, including CAN, CAN FD, and Automotive Ethernet.
Working knowledge of sensor and compute interfaces and time synchronization.
Experience on an autonomous vehicle or robotics platform.
Experience handling autonomous driving or robotics sensor data across multiple modalities and timestamps, including camera, LiDAR, and radar.
Proficiency in Python for data analysis, test automation, and tooling.
Ability to read C++.
Experience working where requirements and the platform were still changing.
Strong written practice covering system requirements, interface specifications, and verification reports, including the limits of a result.
Ability to work onsite five days a week in San Francisco.

Nice To Haves

Experience on an autonomous vehicle or robotics platform.
Experience handling autonomous driving or robotics sensor data across multiple modalities and timestamps, including camera, LiDAR, and radar.
Proficiency in Python for data analysis, test automation, and tooling, and the ability to read C++.
Experience working where the requirements and the platform were still changing.

Responsibilities

Write and maintain system and subsystem requirements for vehicle and truck platforms, including decomposition, allocation, and traceability to verification.
Build and maintain interface control documents between the autonomy kit and vehicle/truck platforms, and between subsystems within the kit, covering signals, networks, power, timing, mounting, and data. Manage the review and change process for these interfaces.
Manage the requirements management toolchain, including structure, attributes, baselines, change tracking, and traceability from requirement to design to verification evidence.
Write verification plans, including method, test environment (analysis, bench, simulation, closed course, on-vehicle), acceptance criteria, and evidence. Work with test teams on execution and confirm results against requirements.
Produce requirements deltas and interface control documents for new vehicle/truck platforms and new sensor/compute generations, while maintaining common requirements across platforms.
Support integration and bring-up on vehicles/machines. Classify failures as requirement, interface, or implementation defects and feed changes back into requirements and interfaces.
Write requirements and interface documentation for engineers, technicians, and partner teams.
Collaborate with vehicle integration and hardware engineering on physical and electrical interfaces, with autonomy and robotics on software interfaces and data, with functional safety on safety requirements, and with bench and hardware-in-the-loop engineering on verification environments.