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Senior Systems Engineer

South San Francisco, California, USA

$160k-$260k / year

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๐Ÿ’ผ About This Role

You'll serve as a trusted technical expert deploying high-reliability autonomous systems into safety-critical environments. You'll own requirements, metrics, and validation to ensure safe and robust systems ship at scale. This role combines deep technical leadership with life-saving impact in global drone delivery.

๐ŸŽฏ What You'll Do

  • Own system and subsystem requirement definition, decomposition, and traceability
  • Define interfaces and drive cross-disciplinary discussions to align on budgets
  • Develop frameworks and facilitate trade studies for performance, safety, and cost
  • Evaluate hardware and software release standards and test requirements

๐Ÿ“‹ Requirements

  • BS/MS in Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or related field
  • 5+ years of real-world experience in safety critical electromechanical systems
  • Ability to solve complex multidisciplinary problems on schedule independently
  • Experience with fail-operational fault tolerant modes enabling continued operation through faults

โœจ Nice to Have

  • Proven track record setting up systems engineering processes in new projects or startups
  • Comfortable with energy budgets, flight dynamics, and statistical analysis to set risk-based thresholds
  • Leadership skills to grow and develop a world-class systems engineering team

๐ŸŽ Benefits & Perks

  • ๐Ÿฉบ Medical, dental and vision insurance
  • ๐Ÿ–๏ธ Paid time off
  • ๐Ÿ“ˆ Equity compensation
  • ๐Ÿ’ฐ Discretionary bonuses

๐Ÿ“จ Hiring Process

Estimated timeline: 3-5 weeks ยท AI estimate

  1. 1Recruiter screenยท 30 min
  2. 2Technical interviewยท 60 min
  3. 3Onsite / panelยท 3 hours
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