Staff Systems Engineer

Responsibilities

Requirements and Traceability

• Own the capture, structure, review, quality, and maintenance of Product, System of Systems (SoS), and System requirements in Jama Connect.
• Maintain end-to-end traceability across SoS, Product, and System requirements.
• Link Product requirements to validation scenarios and SoS/System requirements to verification test cases.
• Resolve missing, incorrect, duplicate, or unjustified requirements and relationships.

Functional Architecture and Safety Integration

• Develop and maintain the Yard Truck SoS functional architecture.
• Derive, organize, map, and allocate requirements across autonomy, drive-by-wire, vehicle systems, operator interfaces, remote operations, and supporting systems.
• Support Functional Hazard Analysis and ISO 26262 Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment activities.
• Coordinate with the safety team to incorporate hazards, safety goals, mitigations, safety concepts, and safety-derived requirements into architecture, baselines, and verification approaches.

Implementation Alignment and Change Impact

• Allocate and trace System requirements to software, hardware, controls, interfaces, and vehicle elements.
• Confirm that product features are decomposed into implementable system behavior and represented in development, integration, verification, and validation activities.
• Identify requirements gaps, ambiguities, conflicts, and needed changes discovered during implementation and testing.
• Assess features, feature changes, and defects for impacts to requirements, architecture, safety, interfaces, allocations, verification, validation, and traceability.
• Distinguish implementation defects from requirements defects, architecture gaps, interface issues, and legitimate feature changes.

Systems Engineering Process and Tooling

• Define and mature systems engineering processes for the program.
• Evaluate and integrate AI-assisted requirements, architecture, traceability, review, and change-impact tools, subject to engineering review and configuration control.
• Improve the usability of systems artifacts through clear structures, terminology, visualizations, reports, dashboards, training, and workflows.

Technical Leadership

• Lead cross-functional reviews involving product, autonomy, software, hardware, controls, safety, test, vehicle integration, and operations.
• Resolve requirement, architecture, interface, and ownership issues through technical judgment and influence.
• Mentor systems engineers and guide stakeholders using Jama, architecture models, traceability information, and related engineering artifacts.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Robotics, or a related technical discipline.
• Seven or more years of systems engineering experience supporting complex cyber-physical systems integrating software, hardware, sensing, controls, communications, and physical equipment.
• Experience with requirements development, decomposition, allocation, configuration management, and bidirectional traceability across multiple system hierarchy levels.
• Experience developing or maintaining functional architectures for interface management, implementation allocation, safety analysis, and verification planning.
• Experience coordinating across software, hardware, controls, safety, integration, product, and test organizations.
• Experience with Jama Connect, IBM DOORS, Polarion, or a comparable requirements platform.
• Strong technical leadership, facilitation, writing, and stakeholder-management skills.

Nice-to-Haves

• Systems engineering experience in autonomous vehicles, advanced driver-assistance systems, robotics, automated industrial equipment, or intelligent transportation.
• Experience with perception, localization, behavior planning, vehicle control, teleoperation, remote operations, or drive-by-wire systems.
• Experience supporting Functional Hazard Analysis, ISO 26262 HARA, functional safety concepts, or safety-derived requirements.
• Experience with model-based systems engineering tools.
• Experience evaluating, deploying, or governing AI-assisted engineering workflows.

Compensation and Benefits

• Base salary range: $150,000–$190,000.
• Equity included in most full-time, high-demand roles.
• Three healthcare plan options, including an HSA-eligible plan; the company covers 80% of premiums for employees and dependents.
• Company-paid basic life/AD&D and short- and long-term disability insurance.
• Company holidays, including a December winter break.
• 20 days of accrued paid time off per year.
• At least 7 weeks of fully paid parental leave.
• $9,000 annual tuition reimbursement or professional development stipend.
• 401(k) plan with company matching up to 4%.