Senior Systems Engineer - Sensor Selection

May Mobility • Ann Arbor, MI

4d • $120,000 - $140,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Systems Engineer serves as the integrating function across the multi-disciplinary teams developing the Next Gen Autonomous Driving Kit, ensuring software, hardware, and product targets remain aligned throughout the development lifecycle. This role is responsible for producing polished requirements and specifications and for optimizing and negotiating trade-offs across the entire development process, Including with OEM partners. Complementing the unit-level testing already performed within the team, the Senior Systems Engineer owns systems integration and validation activities necessary to ensure program objectives are met as designed. This role also works to streamline the interfaces between system architects, controls, and OEM platform partners.

Requirements

• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills
• Strong attention to detail and highly-organized
• Ability to multitask and adapt to shifting priorities in a fast-paced work environment
• Understanding of agile startup and engineering principles and mindset
• Ability to display systems thinking and attention to detail
• Detailed knowledge of requirements management and requirement-based design
• Demonstrated ability to lead system integration and validation across hardware and software domains
• Ability to influence, negotiate, and drive alignment across cross-functional teams and external partners
• Working knowledge of vehicle electrical/electronic (E/E) architecture and in-vehicle networking
• Curiosity to learn and desire to improve
• Passionate about self-driving cars and their impact on the world
• Strong working knowledge of ADAS/Autonomous Vehicle systems
• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited university
• 5+ years experience in automotive engineering working on software, hardware, or combined hardware/software products

Nice To Haves

• A Master’s degree in Engineering or equivalent experience
• Experience integrating and validating combined hardware/software systems at the vehicle or platform level
• Experience supporting OEM platform programs or working directly with OEM partners
• Knowledge of automotive and autonomous vehicle technologies, such as LIDAR, radar, ethernet, and CAN
• Experience with requirements management tooling and requirement-based design
• Experience in Autonomous Vehicles, Machine Learning, Robotics, Internet of Things (IoT), or Mobile Applications
• Experience working in a startup

Responsibilities

• Leverage a system level understanding of our products and technologies to support cross-functional engineering efforts
• Act as the binding agent across multi-disciplinary teams, ensuring software, hardware, and product requirements and targets remain aligned across the ADK 6.0 program
• Own systems integration and validation activities to ensure the platform performs as designed, complementing unit-level testing performed within the team
• Define and develop metrics to verify that the system and its subsystems satisfy feature and system requirements
• Create and maintain requirement specifications by: Analyzing stakeholder, product, and safety requirements to define technical system and subsystem requirements, Supporting system design activities, assessing impact and conformance to requirements, Collaborating with test and validation team to define verification criteria for system requirements, Reviewing legacy requirements to ensure completeness and correctness
• Develop and maintain requirements and specifications to a level of polish suitable for OEM partner collaboration
• Identify, negotiate, and resolve cross-functional trade-offs and conflicts across the entire development process, gaining buy-in from impacted teams
• Streamline interfaces between system architects, controls, and OEM platform partners
• Evaluate industry and regulatory requirements for applicability to May Mobility products
• Performing FMEA analysis, tracking findings to resolution
• Identify gaps in processes and propose solutions for resolution
• Follow safe work procedures; Use of appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE); Use of workplace tools and equipment as instructed; Report workplace hazards, injuries and illness as soon as possible.

Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare suite including medical, dental, vision, life, and disability plans.
• Domestic partners who have been residing together at least one year are also eligible to participate.
• Health Savings and Flexible Spending Healthcare and Dependent Care Accounts available.
• Rich retirement benefits, including an immediately vested employer safe harbor match.
• Generous paid parental leave as well as a phased return to work.
• Flexible vacation policy in addition to paid company holidays.
• Total Wellness Program providing numerous resources for overall wellbeing

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior